The “rules” are guidelines. Good titles should be useful and encourage those interested to read and do a service to those not interested by preemptively not wasting their time. Consider the following guidelines:
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
> If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.
I don’t want a video so this is a good warning. “I wrote hello in rust” is not an article I want to read. “Type erasure in rust” could be an article I might click on.
The title “Pin” is so meaningless it’s like clickbait: someone might waste their time clicking on it and be annoyed, especially if they read synchronously (I just open a bunch of tabs in background in a single pass so it’s not as bad for me).
In this case I clicked the comments first to see what would happen if I were to click on the article. During the week I’d just skip it.
Yesterday there was a link to a tweet, so the title had to be made up. It could have been “Biden drops out” (people have lots of context) but was “Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate”. Just “Biden” would have been clickbait.
