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Dang, I think you're too aggressive with article renames. The author claims that Go is poorly designed. And that's the title of the article. Yes, it's a prov
by kzhahou 11y ago
Dang, I think you're too aggressive with article renames. The author claims that Go is poorly designed. And that's the title of the article. Yes, it's a provocative opinion (and the article text is loud), but the title itself was not outrageous hyperbole. I disagree with other commenters here: just because a controversial opinion will (naturally) gather more clicks, doesn't mean it's linkbait.
The articles here on HN also surface on reddit and other forums. I frequently click links on HN just to discover I'd read them already.
The title often contains a clue as to what I'll find in the article. The author presumably gave it some thought. When HN editorializes titles, I lose that context before I decide to click.
- dang 11y agoYou may not think this was linkbait, but I guarantee you that if this article were on HN's front page with that title, the thread would become about the title. All you need to do is look at the comments that were posted before we changed it. Your objection is really to HN's title policy. In my view that policy is a critical aspect of this site—indeed the longer I work on HN the more critical it seems. So I have to disappoint you here; it's not going to change. Huge numbers of HN readers would be up in arms if it did, even though no reader agrees with every particular edit moderators do.
- kzhahou 11y agoWell, it looks like my only recourse is to mount an aggressive campaign to be the new HN moderator, take you down, restore the original titles, and eventually get run out due to various lurid scandals involving clickbots. Thanks anyway for the reply :-)