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In the future, perhaps it would be useful to put what the thing actually is in the title. Just "GNU Taler" doesn't tell me anything about what something is, oth
by s73ver_ 9y ago
In the future, perhaps it would be useful to put what the thing actually is in the title. Just "GNU Taler" doesn't tell me anything about what something is, other than it's a GNU project.
- fusiongyro 9y agoUsually if you editorialize the title of the link submission the mods will reset it to the title of the page.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI can understand why, but would saying "GNU Taler is blah blah" really editorializing? As long as you aren't embellishing?
- teddyh 9y agoYes, the mods have been known to reset it anyway. It’s too bad, really.
- mst 9y agoI would hope "GNU Taler (one-click cash payments)" would've survived because it took a subtitle from the page rather than editorialising. I sincerely doubt you can draw an accurate line for what's editorialising and what isn't though and I think I'd prefer the mods to continue to err on the side of "nope" simply because I think the failure modes are less annoying overall. But it's always going to be a trade-off.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI think a blanket "nope" stance is too harsh, and leaves no room for nuance. It also assumes that the mods are not intelligent people.
- fusiongyro 9y agoThe nice thing about bureaucracy is that it doesn't leave any room for debate. Not everything needs to be debated. If you're on HN, you're here to waste time. The click is free.
- mst 9y agoTo be clear, "err on the side of" is still a long way from "blanket", and I did say it was a trade-off. Sorry if my choice of idiom was confusing.
- mariodiana 9y agoI guess we should be thankful it wasn't just a link to a GitHub project with a skeleton README.