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by aptwebapps 4834 days ago
To be honest, I was expecting an accusation of some sort because of the headline as it sounded sarcastic. I was pleasantly surprised.
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I didn't mean for it to come off as sarcastic, but I'm glad you were pleasantly surprised. I appreciate you taking the time to check it out.
I was less pleasantly surprised. It's become extremely common to write titles that are "clever" or that require context from the article to parse. That completely eliminates the most useful aspect of a title -- to give a hint as to the contents. If all titles were like this no one would have any clue what to click on and what to ignore.

Could we please be a little more boring and a little more straightforward with our titles?

Blogs are just catching up to dead tree media.