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Please refocus on the Title field if there is an error there when asking

Over on Cryptography, I was wrapping up their recent election. When I got to the meta post announcement, it wasn't posting and I couldn't tell why:

Why isn't this working?

Turns out there was already a 2018 Community Moderator Election Results announcement I made in February. But I didn't see the error because the page didn't scroll back to the title:

Oh. I wrote that already.

I'm using macOS version 10.14.1 and Chrome version 71, but I happen to know it also happened in a previous version of Chrome before I updated. In the past, I'm pretty sure the page did refocus. It does on Enterprise for sure. In addition, on Enterprise there is a notice under the "Post Your Question" button in case the focus doesn't change:

I done screwed up.

On the plus side, the new error message on the Title box is clearly superior to the old popup that was liable to drift offscreen if you changed your window size:

Hello there!

At any rate, just refocusing to the Title if there is an error would make a big difference. (And I think the title errors should take priority over tag or body errors if I have those too.)