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Can you guys add a misleading title flag which prepends the title with something like [Misleading title] so that users know it does not fully summarize the cont
by mrep 8y ago
Can you guys add a misleading title flag which prepends the title with something like [Misleading title] so that users know it does not fully summarize the content of the article? Another article [0] got flagged unjustly in my opinion (unflagged a day later due to my edit I think) because the content was still interesting despite the misleading title.
Some type of title vote mechanism with user input sounds even better but I don't know if you guys have the manpower to implement something like that.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284077
- dang 8y agoI don't think we'd write software to do that (how would it recognize misleading titles?), and when intervening manually we can simply edit the title to not be misleading. That's what the site guidelines ask submitters to do, and what moderators do when we become aware of the problem. When users have flagged an otherwise good article because of a bad title, we often turn off flags once the title has been fixed. If you notice a misleading title that hasn't been edited, you can always let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
- mrep 8y agoYes, but by the time you turn off flags for the article in cases like this, it is already to late because your time based de-ranking algorithm has delisted it off the front pages. That's why a flag that simple prepends the title without delisting it would be good.