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Many readers at HN find posts with interesting titles, skim the comments, and then read the article. Discussion of the title is useful for them, because if a co
by wallacoloo 8y ago
Many readers at HN find posts with interesting titles, skim the comments, and then read the article. Discussion of the title is useful for them, because if a commenter reveals that the title is misleading, the reader might choose to read something else, or approach the article with a different frame of mind.
Point being: there is some value in discussing the title. Certainly different readers value that discussion more/less than discussion of the content.
- nabla9 8y ago> because if a commenter reveals that the title is misleading This is rarely the case. Usually (as is the case here). The commenter uses the title title as a statement and criticizes it directly, not it's relation to the article. It seems to me that people read the title, and come here to comment the title before reading the article.
- mrep 8y agoI've got 27 points on the first comment of this article [0] talking somewhat about the title and 8 points on my follow up about how the title is misleading so some people including myself definitely think the title is important. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941804