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Hacker news needs some form of misleading/clickbait title flag. The article is actually about package delays at one of their warehouses during prime day and no

by mrep 8y ago

Hacker news needs some form of misleading/clickbait title flag. The article is actually about package delays at one of their warehouses during prime day and not the prime day website outages which were caused by their nosql database sable [0]. [0] (ironically, also cnbc): https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-what-caused-prime-day-crash-company-scramble.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-wh... Edit: wow, I don't mean actually flagged and taken off the front page since there was some interesting content in there. I think the flag should just prepend the title with something like [Misleading title] so that users know it does not fully summarize the content of the article.

repolfx 8y ago
I vouched for it. This is clearly tech related, interesting and speaks to an issue of our time - the move to/from the cloud. The headline isn't entirely wrong ... there were two outages on Prime Day and the move off Oracle DB was the cause of one of them, but it could also be clarified. It's a minor issue. I suspect it may just get flagged again because it paints Oracle in a good light. Apparently that is now unspeakable wrongthink and anything that implies Oracle might not be 100% suck needs to be hidden, lest the idea spread.