On: Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorch...

[Dylan16807]

You're calling an article 'useless' because you have to open it to know the unit? That's pretty extreme.

Would you be complaining if it was "Texas Power Prices Spike Amid Scorching Heat"? Or "Texas Power Prices Max Out Amid Scorching Heat"? I think both those titles are fine, and they give about the same amount of information.

[carlmr → Dylan16807]

I was replying to a comment on the headline being useless. It's normal in English not to repeat something in a reply.

To spell it out. It's completely useless to mention $9k in the headline if you don't mention per how many units of energy.

Your suggested titles are IMHO better since they use qualitative language instead of a quantity with no reference point.

[Dylan16807 → carlmr]

If you want to say the number inside the headline is useless, I won't argue.

But you were agreeing with a claim that the headline itself was useless. That's not the same thing.

If the headline was useful without the number, which you seem to agree with[1], then the headline is still useful with the number. It's like adding an extra filler word to a sentence. The word is useless, but it doesn't ruin the sentence it's inside of.

[1] Note that the original headline already had qualitative information, and made it clear that this number was unusually high. It's not qualitative vs. quantitative, it's qualitative vs. both.