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HN prefers to use the titles from the original site.
by nacs 10y ago
HN prefers to use the titles from the original site.
- gelezinisvilkas 10y agoI still dont get why people dislike original titles :/
- chrismorgan 10y agoBecause they’re routinely insipid.
- harperlee 10y agoWell the context in HN frontpage is much lower than in the site, so I guess your granparent was trying to correct that.
- neoCrimeLabs 10y agoCorrect me if I am wrong (it does happen), but I have seen titles edited for clarity regularly on HN. Also, many titles are context sensitive. For example, if you're reading the title on the Quill website, chances are you already know what Quill is - or do you? When you copy the title verbatim to something like HN, the context is completely lost to anyone who doesn't already know what Quill is. In other words matching the title doesn't benefit anyone when the title is meaningless without context.
- scriptproof 10y agoThat may be nonsense when the title on the original site has a context that is the site.