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Wow, so many downvotes. Why is it considered non-constructive to point out a misleading title? The title is the first impression of an article, and most likely
by vog 11y ago
Wow, so many downvotes.
Why is it considered non-constructive to point out a misleading title? The title is the first impression of an article, and most likely the authors are not aware of that ambiguity.
- kaoD 11y agoI didn't downvote, but calling that a misleading title is... misleading. Bias by profession is probably at play here, and it works the other way around: if I found a title titled "networking is hard" dealing with professional/social networking, I'd be confused at first too. I wouldn't call it misleading though, which is probably what triggered the downvotes.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoFunny thing is, I wondered whether it was about social or technical networking when I looked at it. I don't read articles from the source so it wasn't immediately obvious. Didn't bother me, though, as English is just like that: words get overloaded with different meanings. Know this could affect searches, I might have said "or is networking in games just that hard?" Either way, first sentence of the quote tells reader what it's about so no time wasted really.
- Mithaldu 11y agoSimply put: The mistake of presuming was on OP's side, but OP instead decided to blame the author.