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What is with these preachy headlines? "Why you should..." "Please use ..." "Please stay away from..."

It's very presumptuous to assume that you know the intricacies of thousands of developers' workflows well enough to tell them how to do thier jobs.

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It developed originally as a fairly cynical way to make blogs posts stand out, but now everyone seems to be doing it. I hate it.

In fact, I might write a post on it: Why Your Post Titles Are Annoying and What You Can Do About It

I think a better title might be: "Your Titles Suck."

7 Reasons Why Your Titles Suck

How I wrote a title that didn't suck, and saw my productivity increase 30%

With "Please, oh please use git pull --rebase" I didn't mean to preach but to convince some of the people I code with to maintain at least basics of a clean git history, thus the 'please' in title. I wrote it some time ago and only yesterday I was surprised at the sudden popularity of that post :)

Don't take it personally, it's more of a general observation that a problem with your post in particular

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