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Mods: the title of this HN post is not the title of the linked article, which at this writing is the somewhat less clickbaity "What Zillow Doesn’t Want You To K
by saidajigumi 11y ago
Mods: the title of this HN post is not the title of the linked article, which at this writing is the somewhat less clickbaity "What Zillow Doesn’t Want You To Know". In fact, the c&d part, while important, could almost be seen as a distraction from the larger issues of MLS listing access discussed in the article.
- sambe 11y agoWhat do you mean? The current title is factual, the actual title is clickbaity.
- leroy_masochist 11y agoThe title may be clickbaity but it's true, and it's the biggest takeaway I'd have gathered from the post had I found it through other means.
- jonknee 11y agoI like the HN title better, "What Zillow Doesn’t Want You To Know" is the definition of click-bait (it doesn't let you know what they don't want you to know!).
- Simulacra 11y agoTrue, this is true, and technically against the rules. Post Title and Article Title must agree. The poster must be popular or someone affiliated with the mods, else they would've had their posting rights revoked by now.
- dang 11y ago> Post Title and Article Title must agree No, the rule is "Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkabit." That "unless" is critical. I wish we had some linguistic superglue to keep the two clauses stuck together—they always fall apart in shipping and the first bit is the only one people remember. > The poster must be popular or someone affiliated with the mods, else they would've had their posting rights revoked by now. Don't assume omniscience! We miss things. Also, we don't revoke posting rights because of titles unless people break the rules a lot.
- justhw 11y agoI'm not popular nor affiliated with HN. I was actually linked to the article from PG's tweet https://twitter.com/paulg/status/651289253742161920 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/651289253742161920. The actual post's title was click-baity and the tweet title too long to submit to HN, so I truncated it.
- dang 11y agoOk, we reverted to the original title plus a representative phrase from the article. Submitted title was "Zillow using cease-and-desists to kill posts about their listings". I don't think it broke the rule—more likely the submitter was trying to follow the rule by rewording something linkbaity. But since people don't agree about this we've taken another shot.
- zorpner 11y agoOk, we reverted to the original title plus a representative phrase from the article. It combines the clickbait of the original title with a specific industry term that people will have to look up separately! I genuinely don't understand how you could think that this is a better title for this post.
- dang 11y agoI don't, particularly; just trying to make the dreaded title fever subside. If you can suggest an accurate, neutral title that uses representative language from the article, we'll happily change it again. Edit: deleted "MLS" since "listing gap" means much the same thing without it.