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If it's a "self" post (has no domain name after the link indicating an external link) and it's a question, who else would he be asking?
by bobbyi 16y ago
If it's a "self" post (has no domain name after the link indicating an external link) and it's a question, who else would he be asking?
- TrevorBurnham 16y agoNot everyone uses the web interface. For instance, I read HN via RSS. If I see a post without "Ask HN" or a similar prefix, then I expect to be taken to an article. It's a useful nicety.
- drhodes 16y agoNot that I have a dog in this race, but sometimes seemingly arbitrary convention can be exploited. For instance, some pioneering lad[y] might be compiling a collection of Ask-HN-questions. It's easy to see why it would be nice to have "Ask HN" in the title. Convention implies "easier to parse", and that makes programmers happy.