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To whoever edited my title: The bug report title is inaccurate. It's specifically about HSTS preloads, which is why my original title stated that instead of "gT

To whoever edited my title: The bug report title is inaccurate. It's specifically about HSTS preloads, which is why my original title stated that instead of "gTLDs".

mike-cardwell 10y ago
The title as it appears on Hacker News isn't supposed to be "useful". It is supposed to be the same as the source page. Idiotic, I know.
- swiley 10y ago
  Maybe it would be better if submissions included a short summary? so for links to external news articles that summary could be the actual tittle.
- artursapek 10y ago
  If this is the case they should remove the title field and automate fetching <title>. Why let us write a cleaner summary and then just delete it?
- Outpox 10y ago
  That's not what I understood of reading the posting guidelines [0] and especially "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." If OP thought it was misleading, then he was right to adjust it? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - dsp1234 10y ago
    Indeed the "title" of the original page is misleading (because the original bug submitter thought it was one issue, but was really another). And that has had the effect that most of the conversation in this thread is about gTLDs instead of HSTS redirects, when the bug has nothing to do with the former (as noted by the comments where they specifically say that this does not happen to other gTLDs)
  - dang 10y ago
    Quite right.
- deleted 10y ago
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alcari 10y ago
Regardless of the title editing discussion in the sibling comments, the title at the source was changed to "Omnibox hostname heuristics misunderstand internal redirects.", which accurately reflects the problem.
dang 10y ago
If you changed a misleading title to make it accurate, then you were following the HN guidelines and we made a mistake in overwriting it. Sorry! We try hard but inevitably get it wrong sometimes. We've put your title back.

To whoever edited my title: The bug report title is inaccurate. It's specifically about HSTS preloads, which is why my original title stated that instead of "gTLDs".

mike-cardwell 10y ago

The title as it appears on Hacker News isn't supposed to be "useful". It is supposed to be the same as the source page. Idiotic, I know.

swiley 10y ago
Maybe it would be better if submissions included a short summary? so for links to external news articles that summary could be the actual tittle.
artursapek 10y ago
If this is the case they should remove the title field and automate fetching <title>. Why let us write a cleaner summary and then just delete it?
Outpox 10y ago
That's not what I understood of reading the posting guidelines [0] and especially "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." If OP thought it was misleading, then he was right to adjust it? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dsp1234 10y ago
  Indeed the "title" of the original page is misleading (because the original bug submitter thought it was one issue, but was really another). And that has had the effect that most of the conversation in this thread is about gTLDs instead of HSTS redirects, when the bug has nothing to do with the former (as noted by the comments where they specifically say that this does not happen to other gTLDs)
- dang 10y ago
  Quite right.
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alcari 10y ago

Regardless of the title editing discussion in the sibling comments, the title at the source was changed to "Omnibox hostname heuristics misunderstand internal redirects.", which accurately reflects the problem.

dang 10y ago

If you changed a misleading title to make it accurate, then you were following the HN guidelines and we made a mistake in overwriting it. Sorry! We try hard but inevitably get it wrong sometimes. We've put your title back.