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I understand. However, a lot of the time article titles are brief and/or misleading and/or click bait, but the article itself is insightful. I don't want to mak
by tareqak 9y ago
I understand. However, a lot of the time article titles are brief and/or misleading and/or click bait, but the article itself is insightful. I don't want to make the call for editorializing a title myself since I'm not a journalist, and I don't want project any bias I may or may not have. Frankly, I only do this because the Techmeme summary is anecdotally superior to the original article's title, but HN's character limit for the title is too short.
Since you have asked me to stop, I will do so, but do please keep in mind that I only did so because:
1) the limitations on the character count are on the HN side 2) I wanted work around that character count to give insightful, intellectually-stimulating, yet poorly-titled articles their chance to shine.
Thank you for taking the time to read my reply,
- petercooper 9y agoI think you're right, and often notice titles degrading throughout the day as they get edited into bland nothingness, but comments probably aren't going to help since it's the title on the front page that gets people clicking. Now if you had a browser extension that could display the Techmeme/similar headlines alongside, I'd be interested in that :-D
- tareqak 9y agoThank you for the idea! I'll look into try it. No promises though.
- dang 9y agoThat all makes sense. It's just not a good fit for HN, so I appreciate your willingness to stop.