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They are prioritizing accuracy and just what's interesting to them, sadly. Whether a thread will get changed or not seems very inconsistent.
by Tenoke 7y ago
They are prioritizing accuracy and just what's interesting to them, sadly.
Whether a thread will get changed or not seems very inconsistent.
- dang 7y agoEmphasis on 'seems'. Anything that complicated is hard to do consistently, but the inconsistency is around edge cases. If you're perceiving wild inconsistency, that's probably because the problem is more complicated than it appears. I think most readers would be surprised by how much thought goes into these title edits and how they are based on principles, i.e. the site guidelines and lots of heuristics that derive from them. That's why we're always happy to answer questions about specific cases. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617954