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Another day, another HN title changed without any clear rationale. Was the original "Stripe ends Bitcoin support" really so bad that it had to be changed to "En
by sincerely 9y ago
Another day, another HN title changed without any clear rationale. Was the original "Stripe ends Bitcoin support" really so bad that it had to be changed to "Ending Bitcoin Support"?
- mankyd 9y agoThey have a policy of _always_ changing it to match the title of the linked article. Most of the time this is either an improvement or (as in this case) neutral. I do wish they'd allow a little more editorializing, quite frankly. The linked title is not _always_ an improvement.
- sincerely 9y agoAh! That's interesting, I didn't realize it was an official policy. Given that, wouldn't it make sense to generate the post titles from the <title> element of the link automatically?
- Larrikin 9y agoTitle changes are still allowed when the title is too long, misleading, or provides no information about the contents.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoAgreed; this would be far more useful having "Stripe" in the title as I had to click through to see who was ending to and couldn't just grok it.
- tptacek 9y agoNot _always_; titles change when they're linkbait. Here, though, Stripe is already in the story title, and the "Stripe ends" preface suggests that it's a story being written about Stripe, rather than Stripe writing for themselves.