I don't think this should be allowed. I've just edited a couple of question from two different users:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19133/ld-2-14-segfaulting-on-kde-launch-in-archlinux
I edited them because usually square brackets are reserved for [Closed] or [Migrated] tags. Does this bother anyone else?
I kind of a stickler for standard formatting.
There are different schools of writing titles. Some people prefer titles that are grammatical questions. Others (including me) prefer newspaper headlines. Adding tag words separated by punctuation (brackets or otherwise) is pretty universally frowned upon. I agree with your edits, thank you.
Some of the discussions on the topic:
As for disallowing this… How are you going to do that? What about titles that legitimately contain punctuation, like Triggering a method after a delay without abusing [UIView animateWithDuration]? or What is difference between [pool release] and [pool drain]? (ok, this one's closed, but as a duplicate; it is missing a word but the brackets are legitimate)? Conversely, why not ban titles like Django - Using extra clause to retrieve additional data — but how do you do that automatically? There's no way to prevent all the bad ways in which people can ask questions. That's why anyone can edit posts.
