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But he responded to a specific example. If you want to come up with more examples, fine. But don't tell him he's wrong or do a "yes, but".

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The example was only there to show that there are cases where editing the title helps. If you want to get to the best answer, don't argue against what someone said, argue against what they should have said.

Being right or wrong about dismissing a bad example doesn't matter. The important thing is to fix the example and then evaluate it.

Then say something like: "True, for that example. But a better example is...".

I guess I have a problem with jumping on someone who was correct.

Thank you for your help. I agree that the information in the URL is not always enough. I am glad it started a discussion and I hope pg reads the rebuttals to what I wrote. (github.com) is a good example. It shows why github was so eager to move gh-pages to github.io

Perhaps a way to get around the ambiguity (at least in case of github) would be to encourage people to use/link to gh-pages (so we see github.io as distinct from github.com) when they are available?

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