I think his goal is so that he can actually minimize his title, get rid of useless words, and as a result have a much shorter URL.
Forum urls are often way too long, have too many stop words, and really could use a nice trim.
I would love to take domain.com/super-long-pointless-topic-is-way-to-long-and-here-is-a-piece-of-banana
to
domain.com/super-banana