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What was so wrong with the author’s chosen article title that it had to be manually sanitized? I get that HN admins may not like the snark, but it’s the author’
by indigodaddy 7y ago
What was so wrong with the author’s chosen article title that it had to be manually sanitized? I get that HN admins may not like the snark, but it’s the author’s title, it’s his snark, his tone, his article, and by sanitizing the title, you are basically making an editorial decision on his article.
- dang 7y agoThe HN guidelines call for changing titles that are misleading or baity. That one was baity, so we replaced it with representative language from the article body. Generally we err on the side of preserving articles' original titles and favoring authors above everyone else! But not when the title breaks that guideline. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html