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by fenomas 3340 days ago
I really agree. Every time I notice that a title has been changed lately, the edited version is always blander, vaguer, and gives less of an idea what the article is about. There's another example on the front page even now ("esoteric programming paradigms").

Whoever edits titles seems to value brevity and neutrality more highly than saying what's in the article, lately.

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Indeed, concreteness & specificity > generalness & neutrality in almost all cases of writing and communication. It even makes for more catchy titles, without being clickbaity.