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sudo wrote

This would make more sense as a guideline, instead of a hard rule. As the others have said, sometimes it's not possible to shrink a title down to 8 to 10 words. Usually news websites come up with short, comprehensive titles, but I can see this applying to self posts with verbose titles. If the title really is too long there, then someone could ask the OP to shorten their title. If we made it a hard rule, then I think it would cause more problems than it would solve.

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