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I'd love to submit this document to HN, so it has a chance to get a wider audience than provided by this sub thread. However, the title "Seque" is completely u
by vog 9y ago
I'd love to submit this document to HN, so it has a chance to get a wider audience than provided by this sub thread.
However, the title "Seque" is completely unspecific and hence totally useless. Given that title, I don't see how to submit this to HN in a way that it attracts readers.
This is really a pity.
- ballenf 9y agoThe guidelines on titles allow for writing your own title as long as accurate and more informative than the original title. The bigger problem, I think, is the velocity of articles appearing and disappearing from the front page makes follow-up articles have an inherently smaller starting audience.
- DanBC 9y ago> The guidelines on titles allow for writing your own title as long as accurate and more informative than the original title. Mods appear really clear about this. They want you to use the original title unless it's clickbait, or inflammatory, or misleading. Only then can you change it, and they say an informative sentence from the article might do. This means that articles with terrible, unclear, titles get posted to HN all the time. See eg this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15540388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15540388 (Of course, I'm not a mod, so maybe I'm wrong.)
- lmm 9y agoCertainly mods actively edit useful titles, explanatory titles to replace them with the terrible, unclear original title (Steven Hawking's PhD thesis is a good recent example).
- yorwba 9y agoSubmitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15593322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15593322 Coming up with a title was indeed a bit difficult.