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Discussion on: Stop Using Eye-catching Words in Your Title, Please !

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naveennamani
  • You must do this
  • You shouldn't do this
  • Stop doing this (right now)
  • 5 things you must use
  • 50 things developer must know
  • Everything you need to know
  • Only things you'll need
  • You'll be in ❤️

There are even more titles to grab your attention, and I cringe when I see this titles. But every post is just a personal list which is a subset of what we already know from awesome lists on GitHub. (There is an awesome list for awesome lists)

And everybody knows that top 7 posts of dev.to are just discussions and I personally witnessed that. When I posted a non-technical discussion oriented post, it reached a lot of engagement within a short time (half of my total reactions for one post). And all my other posts are just dead.

Honestly I suck at coming up with catchy titles and instead I tend to make it a summary of my post. But who cares?

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nghialv

Sometimes there are "list of collections", or just another approach to PR something (they may own that one 😷)