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There's a second posting of this link on the second page (at the moment) that has the actual article's title - perhaps the discussion can be merged and the titl
by smoyer 10y ago
There's a second posting of this link on the second page (at the moment) that has the actual article's title - perhaps the discussion can be merged and the title normalized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617586
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoThis title is more descriptive and the other, older, discussion has no comments. Merge may still be useful to remove other link.
- wldcordeiro 10y agoThe title here is editorialized, I'd prefer to keep her original title.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoAh yes. Removing "Heartbreaking" is something I would agree with. However I would not have read an article with the other title - it makes it seem like more fluff about terrorists.
- quickly 10y agoYes, exactly. I would not have come across this had the editorialized title not gained more traction.
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- anexprogrammer 10y agoQuite so. The title changed after I'd clicked the link. Without the mention of it being a piece by Robin Williams wife I'd have skipped over assuming it another piece about radicalisation.
- ScottBurson 10y agoI saw the other title and skipped it. I think this one is fine as is. ETA: I suppose "The terrorist in Robin Williams' brain" would be a fair compromise.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoMentioning that it is written by his widow was a large factor in me clicking the link.
- DennisP 10y agoEditorialized or not, actually mentioning that it's about Robin Williams is helpful. I skipped the other link, and I'm glad I didn't miss the article.
- srean 10y agoIts a little unfortunate that the bag of metaphors in popular American discourse have come to contain little beyond "war against *" and "terrorists".
- smoyer 10y agoI'm not disagreeing ... The original title didn't result in a discussion here. I purposely said "normalized" for this reason (maybe the original title with Robin Williams in parenthesis after Husband).
- sctb 10y agoWe marked the other submission as a duplicate and changed the title of this one from “Heartbreaking essay by Robin Williams' wife about what happened to him”. Since the original title is neither misleading nor linkbait, the guidelines ask that we keep it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html