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The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot." There's some strong editorializing
by lallysingh 7y ago
The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot."
There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.
- baud147258 7y agoThe actual title is too long for the HN submission. But I agree that the editorializing is poor; a better title would have been: NY Times tracks Reddit conversations around their articles using a Slack bot
- GCA10 7y agoThere's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about: To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
- hombre_fatal 7y agoAt that point, what's the point of the Yoda sentence split-and-reorder? How about: {We/NYTimes} Built a Slack Bot to Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles
- dictum 7y agoI'm not privy to the technical reasoning, but the Yoda split-and-reorder is part of their brand identity, so to speak. It's an in-joke in journalism that the NYT routinely starts headlines with prepositions (followed by "location/context, noun/subject verb noun...")
- dictum 7y agoMy take would be "In the NYT Slack, a Bot to Track Reddit Conversations". https://twitter.com/NYTPrepositions https://twitter.com/NYTPrepositions
- sctb 7y agoThanks, we've updated the title from “NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content” to that of the article with a more mechanical shortening.