Maybe Iām missing something, but I feel like this is an always-general argument against all informative title names?
I donāt think soāI think itās quite clear how itās easier for a reader to make good choices about whether to read this post if itās called āSome history topics it might be very valuable to investigateā than if it was called (for example) āTopicsā or āHistory stuffā or āWhat you can do with historyā. But I just donāt immediately see why changing it from the current title to ā10 history topics it might be very valuable to investigateā would help the reader make good choices?
It seems like whether itās about history and whether itās research topics is useful info, but whether itās 3 or 10 or 20 isnāt very useful, especially given that I probably couldāve included roughly the same content under 3 topics or split it up into 20.
And then the word count /ā scrolling is relevant because, if the consideration is āhow long will this take me?ā, then word count /ā scrolling seems to address that better than reading one topic and multiplying by the stated number of topics. (The latter requires reading a topic before deciding, and the topics may actually differ in length.)
(Of course, there may be a reason Iām missing; I wouldnāt be that surprised if you said one sentence and then I went āOh yeah, fair point, I shouldāve thought of that.ā)
I donāt think soāI think itās quite clear how itās easier for a reader to make good choices about whether to read this post if itās called āSome history topics it might be very valuable to investigateā than if it was called (for example) āTopicsā or āHistory stuffā or āWhat you can do with historyā. But I just donāt immediately see why changing it from the current title to ā10 history topics it might be very valuable to investigateā would help the reader make good choices?
It seems like whether itās about history and whether itās research topics is useful info, but whether itās 3 or 10 or 20 isnāt very useful, especially given that I probably couldāve included roughly the same content under 3 topics or split it up into 20.
And then the word count /ā scrolling is relevant because, if the consideration is āhow long will this take me?ā, then word count /ā scrolling seems to address that better than reading one topic and multiplying by the stated number of topics. (The latter requires reading a topic before deciding, and the topics may actually differ in length.)
(Of course, there may be a reason Iām missing; I wouldnāt be that surprised if you said one sentence and then I went āOh yeah, fair point, I shouldāve thought of that.ā)