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I know it's policy, but the original headline (which included "inventor of the laser printer") was more enlightening.
by LeoPanthera 7y ago
I know it's policy, but the original headline (which included "inventor of the laser printer") was more enlightening.
- rblatz 7y agoThat’s been my opinion on a lot of these, they edit the headline and make it less helpful.
- dang 7y agoThat's because it's a global optimization rather than a local one: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22work%20a%20little%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... There's a rarer and more special consideration in a case like this as well. Taking out "inventor of the laser printer" adds more information than it removes. It adds the information that Starkweather is significant enough that HN readers ought to know who he is. If that information were hard to obtain, there might be a tradeoff here, but since it's literally one click away, I think the benefit of this edit outweighs the cost.