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Re:A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (... by adwn on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:32AM (#28433045)
You've been active here for 9 years and haven't noticed yet that posts from previous years get a [year] tag in their title?
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Re:A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (... by pif on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:02AM (#28433714)
Sure I did, and that is fine when talking about the last fad in web programming.

But we don't need such nitpicking for articles on more stable arguments.

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Re:A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (... by adwn on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:00AM (#28434330)
> Sure I did, and that is fine when talking about the last fad in web programming. But we don't need such nitpicking for articles on more stable arguments.

... right, that is the reason for putting the year in titles ...

Or maybe it's done so that you can quickly discern whether it's old news, or a new development of something you've heard about previously.

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Re:A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (... by burnished on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:19PM (#28436462)
It isn't nitpicking, its just regular old helpful. Like, I want to see where you are coming from, but I'm actually kind of stuck on this. How is it nitpicking? Where I'm coming from is the expectation that a citation includes the year of publication.
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