Maybe Iâm missing something, but I feel like this is an always-general argument against all informative title names?
I donât think soâI think itâs quite clear how itâs easier for a reader to make good choices about whether to read this post if itâs called âSome history topics it might be very valuable to investigateâ than if it was called (for example) âTopicsâ or âHistory stuffâ or âWhat you can do with historyâ. But I just donât immediately see why changing it from the current title to â10 history topics it might be very valuable to investigateâ would help the reader make good choices?
It seems like whether itâs about history and whether itâs research topics is useful info, but whether itâs 3 or 10 or 20 isnât very useful, especially given that I probably couldâve included roughly the same content under 3 topics or split it up into 20.
And then the word count /â scrolling is relevant because, if the consideration is âhow long will this take me?â, then word count /â 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 Iâm missing; I wouldnât be that surprised if you said one sentence and then I went âOh yeah, fair point, I shouldâve thought of that.â)
I donât think soâI think itâs quite clear how itâs easier for a reader to make good choices about whether to read this post if itâs called âSome history topics it might be very valuable to investigateâ than if it was called (for example) âTopicsâ or âHistory stuffâ or âWhat you can do with historyâ. But I just donât immediately see why changing it from the current title to â10 history topics it might be very valuable to investigateâ would help the reader make good choices?
It seems like whether itâs about history and whether itâs research topics is useful info, but whether itâs 3 or 10 or 20 isnât very useful, especially given that I probably couldâve included roughly the same content under 3 topics or split it up into 20.
And then the word count /â scrolling is relevant because, if the consideration is âhow long will this take me?â, then word count /â 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 Iâm missing; I wouldnât be that surprised if you said one sentence and then I went âOh yeah, fair point, I shouldâve thought of that.â)