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When I submitted it I used the article's title Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing, apparently one of the mods felt this was an impro
by frostmatthew 9y ago
When I submitted it I used the article's title Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing, apparently one of the mods felt this was an improvement /shrug
- dang 9y agoThe HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". This article's title is grandiose enough to count as linkbait. In such cases, mods change titles, nearly always using either a subtitle or a representative phrase from the article. The reason we do this, btw, is that if we don't, the comment threads fill up with shallow objections to the title. We don't always get it 100% right, of course, and are pleased when readers suggest better. But the basic principle is that, on HN, a good title is accurate, neutral, and uses the article's own language.
- dwringer 9y agoI hope you don't consider mine a shallow objection. I rather liked the change :)
- dang 9y agoNot at all, I meant that if the title above were still "Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing", there would be complaints about linkbait and whatnot. Of course the complaints are usually justified on their own terms, but they're predictable and therefore tedious, and they take threads way off topic.