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I think this change of title is detrimental. The original title signalled the context of this article which is far more important than the premise. The new tit

I think this change of title is detrimental. The original title signalled the context of this article which is far more important than the premise. The new title reveals nothing of the context and a layman interpretation changes from 'is someone is trying to patent an existing crypto algorithm?' to 'some article about some crypto algorithm'.

ricardobeat 7y ago
Seconded. The whole news story here is that someone is patenting Signal's algorithm (or something very similar to it) and not just a random interesting patent.
- pvg 7y ago
  You can't make up your own title to say what you think the story is but there are lots of options that are not that like - find a story that has the framing/title you want, write a comment, write your own story/title and post that.
  - missosoup 7y ago
    If you can make up a story and link it, then you should be able to 'make up' a title within constraints. There's a pretty clear cut line between editorialising (injecting spin or opinion) and clarifying the context of the title. In this case the change of title was objectively harmful and the traffic to this post died after the admins made the change, because most readers had no indication as to the importance of this anymore.
    - pvg 7y ago
      There's no such 'clear line' and this is not a 'story' it's a patent application - things that are themselves notoriously easy to misinterpret and misrepresent. If there is something important about the application, someone could have written a better-titled story about it or, again, left a comment. You're basically asking for made-up titles because you don't like what happened to this submission. The solution to this problem is better submissions, not made-up titles.
- ryanlol 7y ago
  >or something very similar to it The original title did not reflect that.
dang 7y ago
The comments make that clear.
- ncmncm 7y ago
  The comments will be seen only by those not misled by the obscure title.

ricardobeat 7y ago

Seconded. The whole news story here is that someone is patenting Signal's algorithm (or something very similar to it) and not just a random interesting patent.

pvg 7y ago
You can't make up your own title to say what you think the story is but there are lots of options that are not that like - find a story that has the framing/title you want, write a comment, write your own story/title and post that.
- missosoup 7y ago
  If you can make up a story and link it, then you should be able to 'make up' a title within constraints. There's a pretty clear cut line between editorialising (injecting spin or opinion) and clarifying the context of the title. In this case the change of title was objectively harmful and the traffic to this post died after the admins made the change, because most readers had no indication as to the importance of this anymore.
  - pvg 7y ago
    There's no such 'clear line' and this is not a 'story' it's a patent application - things that are themselves notoriously easy to misinterpret and misrepresent. If there is something important about the application, someone could have written a better-titled story about it or, again, left a comment. You're basically asking for made-up titles because you don't like what happened to this submission. The solution to this problem is better submissions, not made-up titles.
ryanlol 7y ago
>or something very similar to it The original title did not reflect that.

dang 7y ago

The comments make that clear.

ncmncm 7y ago
The comments will be seen only by those not misled by the obscure title.