Why 10 characters?

Why do you need to have 10 characters in the topic title before you can post a thread?

some topics do just fine with a simple one word title, happened alot on the old GS.

What? Really? It used to be five. :?

I agree. 5 characters should be sufficient enough for a character minimum limit. While it's not too hard to come up with 10 characters, it's just not necessary in some cases.

So you can say class as long as you say classrooms

Wouldn't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's an SEO thing.

Why is that a big deal? It's probably to stop waves of "Lol!" and "Urgh" threads and to give people a good idea of the thread they're entering (which is sort of the point of a title)