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Please change the title to something along the lines of "Equifax customer service is ineffective"
by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 9y ago
Please change the title to something along the lines of "Equifax customer service is ineffective"
- Nelson69 9y agoOr you could make it even more simple and leave "customer service" out of it.
- sctb 9y agoSure thing, we've updated the title to a representative phrase from the article.
- jimktrains2 9y agoI thought there was a pretty hard rule of using the name of the article only, Even when it makes no sense in context. What are the exceptions to that rule?
- grzm 9y agoYou're right that there's a strong preference to use the original article title. That said, the guidelines go into more detail under "In Submissions": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In this case I suspect the mods agreed with 'XR0CSWV3h3kZWg that the given title wasn't very good (and not obscure in the intriguing sense, maybe whimsical sense). Personally I find the "I did x. This is what happened"-type quite click-baity. As an aside, I wonder how far one could go using only "this" as a filter for click-bait titles.