Brackets in question titles

Question

This question includes brackets in its title:

Do the relevant stats of a creature summoned via a "Summon [Creature Type]"-style spell change, if your stats change after you summoned it?

I can see the reason for the brackets - it is clearly indicating that OP wants to ask about a number of related spells such as Summon Aberration, Summon Elemental, Summon Undead, etc.

A more recent question, I believe this one, seemed related to me in the sense that it was asking about what happens to summoned creatures if the referenced statistics of their summoners change. So I attempted to do the standard format "related" comment with a link to the prior question (I don't see my comment now so I expect it has been removed).

However, when posting the comment, I found that the brackets in the question title interfered with the link-recognition, such that the title was not linked to the question but rather all of the text was displayed, as in the first comment below.

This interference is not found with a question or answer box, such as the same text posted here will format correctly:

Related: Do the relevant stats of a creature summoned via a "Summon [Creature Type]"-style spell change, if your stats change after you summoned it?

In such a case, should I simply remove the brackets (as in the second comment below), even though this results in not correctly reproducing the title of the question?

Should question writers be discouraged from using brackets in their titles?

Answer 1

Special characters can be escaped with \

If you have text you want a link on such as

Testing [link] ideas

You can escape any troublesome characters by placing a \ before them, which makes the parser treat them as regular characters and never special ones, such as the ones that indicate the parts of a link.

For example:

[Testing \[link\] ideas](https://rpg.stackexchange.com)

Yields:

Testing [link] ideas