Personally, I don’t think this deserves that much discussion time. It’s literally one word.
All that said, I’d note that I couldn’t at all tell that it was humorous. The problem is that I just don’t feel like I can model authors that well. I know that many, particularly junior ones, do make such titles genuinely (not jokingly), so I just assumed it was that way.
It really, really, sucks, but I think public writing generally can’t be subtle/clever in many ways we’re used to with friends and colleagues. Our friends would pick up on things like this, but random people online would often miss it. I’ve been trying to write with much less subtlety than I do in smaller communities; it’s less nice, but I don’t see another way.
Personally, I don’t think this deserves that much discussion time. It’s literally one word.
All that said, I’d note that I couldn’t at all tell that it was humorous. The problem is that I just don’t feel like I can model authors that well. I know that many, particularly junior ones, do make such titles genuinely (not jokingly), so I just assumed it was that way.
It really, really, sucks, but I think public writing generally can’t be subtle/clever in many ways we’re used to with friends and colleagues. Our friends would pick up on things like this, but random people online would often miss it. I’ve been trying to write with much less subtlety than I do in smaller communities; it’s less nice, but I don’t see another way.