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Also can we get rid of “Someone” in the headline?

It’s very clickbaity as the identity of the “Someone” is one of the first things you see by clicking the link.



It's not bait, so it can't be "clickbait."

Nobody here is clicking out of a burning curiosity to resolve the PR-submitter's identity. We can reliably predict it'll be a random account that we've never seen before and will never recognize again.

Analogy: It's like someone linked "A kitten doing somersaults." I don't care which kitten is involved, I'll click because I anticipate cuteness and amusing acrobatics. Replacing it with "Miss Mittens (a kitten) doing somersaults" is unnecessary.


There is zero information gained by actually naming the person in the title. They are just a random contributor out of all the contributors on GitHub


Is their name particularly relevant to the headline? If anything it feels like it might be beneficial to emphasize that it's not about the who here, but instead the what.


What would you prefer? Naming someone that nobody knows?




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