Yes, 'The Algorithm' REALLY IS Like That

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not capping every word in a headline is sociopath behavior

Writing Headlines Like This Has Been Shown To Be Harder To Parse And Readers Are Less Likely To Retain The Information. People Just Want To Imitate The New York Times, Though.

 

[Ryujin]

Writing Headlines Like This Has Been Shown To Be Harder To Parse And Readers Are Less Likely To Retain The Information. People Just Want To Imitate The New York Times, Though.

It's not just the NYT. In the context of books titles have traditionally been capitalized, with the exception of definite and indefinite articles (a, the), and sometimes prepositions, unless they are at the beginning of the title and would otherwise be capitalized due to their position in a sentence. Admittedly, even that rule is frequently fairly loosely enforced.

 

[trappedslider]

Admittedly, even that rule is frequently fairly loosely enforced.

 

[Gradine]

Writing Headlines Like This Has Been Shown To Be Harder To Parse And Readers Are Less Likely To Retain The Information. People Just Want To Imitate The New York Times, Though.

Don't write headlines like the names of 2020's isekai anime and you won't run into that problem as much

 

[Morrus]

Admittedly, even that rule is frequently fairly loosely enforced.

Who would enforce it?

 

[MoonSong]

Who would enforce it?

You see, every year the Department of Headlines audits all newspapers to make sure they use the rules for headlines correctly, and if they don't, the editor has to repeat fourth grade.... n_n

 

[RealAlHazred]

just do what i do and put all words in lower case also put all punctuation marks at the end that way readers have a fun little game of putting them where they prefer i also put a few extra keeps people on their toes it s definitely better than capitalizing everything.,,.'..!'!-,-...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's not just the NYT. In the context of books titles have traditionally been capitalized, with the exception of definite and indefinite articles (a, the), and sometimes prepositions, unless they are at the beginning of the title and would otherwise be capitalized due to their position in a sentence. Admittedly, even that rule is frequently fairly loosely enforced.

Books don't have headlines, they have titles and different norms.

When you see it with news outlet headlines, they are 100% aping the New York Times.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You see, every year the Department of Headlines audits all newspapers to make sure they

Good lord, don't give them any ideas.

 

[Ryujin]

Who would enforce it?

Editors?