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We've taken "Elixir" out of the title above because otherwise the thread will be about nothing but that.

How about we treat this as an exercise in community self-discipline and see if we can resist the name-bait? I know it's hard.

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When I submitted this topic, I hesitated about whether should I add "Elixir" to the title. I know this may confuse some people because "Elixir" is also a programming language. However, I think project's name may also help people to distinguish it from other projects, so I add it. It seems that this title indeed causes it to be mistaken for something else and I'm sorry for that.

I don't understand, the project is _called_ Elixir. Isn't it against HN rules to editorialize titles -- I would assume "The Elixir Cross Referencer" is the valid title for such a submission.

There's a reason they're called guidelines not rules :)

We don't want them to be rigidly enforced for their own sake, we want them to help cultivate more interesting discussions.

So, when a case arises in which the original title causes a discussion to be bad (e.g., it is becoming dominated by off-topic discussion of the fact that the project's name causes it to be mistaken for an established project that's already well known to the community), that surely warrants a deviation from the guidelines, no?

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