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The original title of this post was "The sheer amount of data Windows 10 sends from your PC". Which was shorted from the article title "Put down your coffee an

by frik 10y ago

The original title of this post was "The sheer amount of data Windows 10 sends from your PC". Which was shorted from the article title "Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC" But now he HN title got changed to "Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft" whih is misleading or let's say down-playing the whole story. The story is more than yesterdays HN story, it shades a not so nice picture about what really happen.

developer2 10y ago
The "Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft" is the subheading from the article, and offers a neutral tone compared to the biased headline of "The sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC". While general consensus will likely be that that it is too much data collection, it's more ethical - from a journalism standpoint - to allow each reader to decide that for themselves based on the facts. I find it odd that The Register used a biased headline, while delegating the unbiased phrase to the role of a subheading. I suspect the neutral subheading was provided by the author of the article, while the headline was manufactured by someone whose job it is to drive traffic/views.
- AimHere 10y ago
  > I find it odd that The Register used a biased headline, while delegating the unbiased phrase to the role of a subheading. The only thing odd about that is that The Register has a more neutral tone in it's subheading than normal. The main headline is using the default Register style (and if you go to the Reg's front page, you'll see plenty of tabloid-esque subheadings). I suspect that since this has been the Reg's modus operandi for years, that there's no need for an editor to write headlines by now - the staff writers know what's expected and probably use the house style already. If anything, it's the po-faced subheading that's likely to have been tampered with on an ad-hoc basis.

by frik 10y ago

developer2 10y ago

The "Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft" is the subheading from the article, and offers a neutral tone compared to the biased headline of "The sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC". While general consensus will likely be that that it is too much data collection, it's more ethical - from a journalism standpoint - to allow each reader to decide that for themselves based on the facts. I find it odd that The Register used a biased headline, while delegating the unbiased phrase to the role of a subheading. I suspect the neutral subheading was provided by the author of the article, while the headline was manufactured by someone whose job it is to drive traffic/views.

AimHere 10y ago
> I find it odd that The Register used a biased headline, while delegating the unbiased phrase to the role of a subheading. The only thing odd about that is that The Register has a more neutral tone in it's subheading than normal. The main headline is using the default Register style (and if you go to the Reg's front page, you'll see plenty of tabloid-esque subheadings). I suspect that since this has been the Reg's modus operandi for years, that there's no need for an editor to write headlines by now - the staff writers know what's expected and probably use the house style already. If anything, it's the po-faced subheading that's likely to have been tampered with on an ad-hoc basis.