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There is an about at the bottom of the page that perhaps should be somewhere higher > eLucy is dedicated to sharing information about Lucy, an early fossil hom
by comboy 10y ago
There is an about at the bottom of the page that perhaps should be somewhere higher
> eLucy is dedicated to sharing information about Lucy, an early fossil hominin represented by the 3.2 million year old remains of a relatively complete skeleton.
- nine_k 10y agoYou missed the idea. The point of the title is to tell me whether I should click the link, much like a scientific paper's abstract. Informative titles help click-through rate.
- x1798DE 10y agoYou're generally not supposed to change the original titles of the pages you submit on HN. Sometimes it leads to low information titles, but I think generally it's an improvement over the clickbait people tend to submit when given free reign.
- nine_k 10y agoYes, submitters have less control. The authors should put more of an explanation into the title / blurb.
- tom_mellior 10y ago> You're generally not supposed to change the original titles of the pages you submit on HN. Adding clarifying information, exactly as the moderators did in this case, is surely not forbidden or discouraged in such cases where there is zero context. With today's silly naming trends, the title "eLucy" might as well be an announcement of a new programming language or a Silicon Valley on-demand cleaning (and/or escort) service. > I think generally it's an improvement over the clickbait people tend to submit when given free reign. As the original titles are very often clickbait, I don't think you have a point. I'm not advocating for "free reign", but I am advocating for putting individual words that save you a click into the title. For example, we regularly get articles of the form "The X that did Y" that would always be better as "<the name of the thing>: The X that did Y".