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Yes, this. The seemingly increasing HN practice of rewriting submission titles and headlines strikes me as the ultimate in IT support nerd "just move"-ism.
by jonstokes 9y ago
Yes, this. The seemingly increasing HN practice of rewriting submission titles and headlines strikes me as the ultimate in IT support nerd "just move"-ism.
- mintplant 9y agoI disagree, the original title is too vague. Perhaps "MILA to stop working on Theano".
- jonstokes 9y agoThe original title is less precise, but it's not even remotely inaccurate or even "vague" by any reasonable definition of the term. If you want to know about the future of Theano, that tells you about it. If a title is misleading clickbait, then sure, fix it. But if you're making subjective judgment calls about whether you think the level of imprecision is appropriate or not, and so on, that's way over the line. Again, the original title is 100% appropriate for the post, because it describes exactly what the post lays out. It may not be as precise as you personally want it, but this is how the author chose to package it and that should be respected.
- dang 9y agoIt has been going on since the beginning, which is why there's a rule about it and also why people ignore the rule. We changed the title from "Theano not to be developed further". Submitters: please don't editorialize like this. It breaks the rule. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html