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This is a title that raises an idea: What’s the possibility that Hacker News might ignore limited punctuation to improve titles?
by Overtonwindow 7y ago
This is a title that raises an idea: What’s the possibility that Hacker News might ignore limited punctuation to improve titles?
- dang 7y agoTitle and punctuation department here. I don't quite apprehend your concern; can you elaborate?
- tom_mellior 7y agoSemi-related question: Do you still take the "original title" rule seriously, and if yes, what's a good way to refer articles that don't follow it? For example this popular post from yesterday doesn't have the original title or anything close to (or better than) it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082757
- dang 7y agoFor sure we take it seriously. The best way is to email hn@ycombinator.com if you see a problem. In the case of that post, the submitter had emailed about it and we suggested that title as more informative than the original. Happy to hear feedback if we got that wrong!
- tom_mellior 7y ago"ImageNet for Code" is not a good title, I think, because I was mostly thinking of ImageNet of a dataset, not as an ongoing contest. Removing the "challenge" from the original title was not useful IMHO.
- dang 7y agoGood point. I've put the challenge back in the title. It's a bit of a monster now, but oh well.