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It probably did not get the attention you thought it deserved because the title is just not interesting. If you think the content is worth the time, take some o
by sp4rki 16y ago
It probably did not get the attention you thought it deserved because the title is just not interesting. If you think the content is worth the time, take some of your time to give it a better title so people are attracted to the article.
This does nothing for me: "IPhone's Trainyard developer share his story on how he got featured"
But change it to something like: "From 0 to 450k, an App Store Success Story - With Charts and Numbers!"
And I bet the story ends up in the home page. I'm going to drink my own koolaid and submit the story with such a title to see what happens ;)
Edit: I mean, look at what you did here, you posted this message with a title that people noticed and boom, you now have people looking in to the article that wouldn't have already.
- rlpb 16y agoThis just leads to another problem though: the first submitter can bury a story by submitting a poor headline.
- sp4rki 16y agoYep that's correct, but that's how it is now. I can submit a story with any title I want. If you really want to submit a story that has been buried by a lousy title, there are ways to do so (as I did with this story a couple of hours ago)
- techiferous 16y ago"It probably did not get the attention you thought it deserved because the title is just not interesting." True. However, I don't like the trend of voting up stories because they have interesting titles. It leads to stories about iPhone developers losing out to stories about civil liberties in airports (that has nothing at all to do with hacking).
- sp4rki 16y agoThe trend is not to upvote stories based on their title, the trend is to attract more users into the story and the inherent discussion of it. I never upvote a story I haven't read or at least skimmed over and agreed its worth other peoples time.