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Re:HN Guideline Reminder: Please remove numbers from post ti... by wastedbrains on Monday July 06, 2009 @02:30PM (#690161)
I disagree if the title of the article being linked to contains numbers so should the post title. It is more misleading and awkward to click the link and then do a double take when the article names don't match.

I think this is a bad guideline.

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Re:HN Guideline Reminder: Please remove numbers from post ti... by frossie on Monday July 06, 2009 @05:53PM (#690515)
Eh? Submitters routinely submit a different title than the original article (eg. to give more context) - if that makes you do a double take, you must be doing it a lot. I don't even notice.

The N in "N ways to" is usually noise, so I can see why the guideline is there.

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