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For new readers, the HN title has changed. Since the majority of comments do point out the title specifically do know that it was for a previous title. I can n
by tjoff 8y ago
For new readers, the HN title has changed. Since the majority of comments do point out the title specifically do know that it was for a previous title.
I can not understand why HN mods do this. Doesn't matter if X is a better title than Y, changing it is by far worse than either - at least once it has hit the front page. And everyone that has already clicked on the discussion will click on it again with the new title because naturally one would believe it was another related article spawned by the first one.
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- dsr_ 8y agoOr HN could gain the ability to pin a mod note at the top of the comments. "We changed the title from Aliens Ate Your Code to Problems with Managing Remote Contract Programmers."
- tjoff 8y agoDoesn't solve the problem of rediscovering it because of the new title. If so I'd rather have the pin just say "We think a better/more descriptive title would have been X".