"Seriously, until you brought this up, I hadn't even thought of the kind of style where you had something other than username|read in the tab portion of your browser."

Really? Because the second sentence in the post that begins this discussion reads

" I've set the title of my new blog to be "Imaginary Footlights", or at least I thought I did, but when I look at the top of the screen on my blog

http://joseph-dunphy.dreamwidth.org/

instead of seeing the title, I see 'joseph-dunphy | recent entries', which to my eye looks more than a little sloppy."

A fact, not an opinion. Look at the top of the page. If you respond to a post without reading it, first, whose fault is that?