I know I’m old, but… I’m not a fan of blog posts that have sub-headings where each only has a short paragraph underneath them. Sub-headings should be used for more substantial things.

@pimoore I’m no expert… but paragraphs are meant to be a shift in thought. So I think for most short blog posts paragraphs are enough. A sub-heading with just a short paragraph after each seems like overkill and isn’t visually very appealing. Technical documents, on the other hand, make good use of headings to get you right to the parts you’re most interested in.

@cdevroe Agreed wholeheartedly.

Because Twitter

I honestly think that long-form writing is losing the war against very-short-form updates, and that’s probably the reason that folks fumble with things like how to use headings effectively.

@cdevroe @angelostavrow @pimoore Design via cattle prod can only be used if you see the users as cattle. And cattle don’t need to acquire such paltry skils as, you know, communicating.

@AngeloStavrow

+1 this.

LinkedIn’s also a massive culprit. So many people write one-sentence paragraphs. Ugh.

@leonp

I agree there may be times when you can use the heading markup for splitting content up like this. But I’m mostly speaking about blog posts.

One thing I have to remember… anyone can do whatever they want on their own blog!