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this is one thing i hate about hacker news' policy of editing (and thus editorializing) titles and links. for one, nobody knows what you two are discussing beca
by nikofeyn 7y ago
this is one thing i hate about hacker news' policy of editing (and thus editorializing) titles and links. for one, nobody knows what you two are discussing because no one knows what the original title was, what the original change was, and how those differ from the current title. it just confuses things. and more often i can't find articles i had read earlier in the day because the title and maybe even link has changed. and all that ignores the possibility of editorializing an article's title. to me, the original title, regardless of its provocativeness, is always preferred. if there is a need to update the link, then that should be in a comment and stickied if hacker news had that feature.
- dang 7y agoIf we change the title we usually say "submitted title was XYZ" in a comment, like so: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22submitted%20title%20was%22&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22submitted%20title%20was%22&.... If you don't see that, it almost always means the original title was just whatever shows in the article. That was the case with this one.