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Give context in titles. (The post is a size of a tweet about using them on publications.) Don't make me click to see if I might be interested in opening this c
by karmakaze 3y ago
Give context in titles. (The post is a size of a tweet about using them on publications.) Don't make me click to see if I might be interested in opening this content.
Dropping timestamps is very akin to using terse catchy titles, it draws in the unsuspecting and gives content wider/longer exposure.
- alanbernstein 3y agoNormally I would agree with you, but the "In fact, this extends to almost anything online and even offline." is implied by the generality of the title.
- karmakaze 3y agoI was thinking of distributed systems vs vector-clocks etc. If it had said "publication date", which is really what's being asked that would be clear enough.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoNah, I thought it would be about storing dates in databases. Implication is inaccurate, inaccurate is bad, like "a year ago" in timestamps.