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This is a completely ridiculous title change, doesn't match the article title, and totally obfuscates the relevance of the article.
by throwaway2048 7y ago
This is a completely ridiculous title change, doesn't match the article title, and totally obfuscates the relevance of the article.
- dang 7y agoIt's routine HN moderation. The site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ask for the original title to be used except when it's misleading or linkbait. When a title is either of those things, we change it. We do that routinely. The issue is following the site guidelines. There's zero intention to obfuscate. In this case, the article title is in my judgment misleading—not hugely so, but enough to be worth changing. We changed it to language from the first paragraph, which is where articles typically say what they're really about. If that's obfuscating, then the article obfuscates itself.
- throwaway2048 7y agoIntent to obfuscate was not implied in my statement, apologies if it came across like that.