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Shouldn't this have the correct title "The New Google: ‘All the Assholes Have Left’" ?
by chippy 11y ago
Shouldn't this have the correct title "The New Google: ‘All the Assholes Have Left’" ?
- tomhoward 11y agoNo - it's clickbait.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoAnd the new one isn't? At least the original was from the article, instead of editorialized by the poster/moderator.
- Touche 11y ago> And the new one isn't? No, the new one isn't motivated to get you to click the link, and therefore is not "clickbait". It is editorialized, but that's a good thing.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoHow can text be motivated? It's still clickbait because it makes an unjustified, subjective judgement.
- dang 11y agoNo, it's the doc title, which makes it a legit original—indeed, it's what the HN bookmarklet selects by default. So adidash didn't editorialize anything. Also, no moderator touched this post.
- ExpiredLink 11y agoIt had that title few minutes ago ...
- dang 11y agoAccording to the logs, it was submitted like this and never changed. Perhaps you saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438539 on the /newest page?
- kzhahou 11y agoHN has overeager mods. Every day I see a new link here, just to find out it was simply a rename, when the original title was IMHO perfectly appropriate.
- dang 11y agoBoth are original titles—the 'asshole' one is an H1 heading and the 'egotistical' one is the doc title. The submitter chose the latter, which (since it's less baity) was the better choice by the HN guidelines.