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OP's headline saves you a click, versus the original title: "We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art"
by colmvp 7y ago
OP's headline saves you a click, versus the original title: "We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art"
- oefrha 7y agoYeah, if you saved that click you also got the wrong idea. I even proposed a better official title. Makes me wonder if you read my comment at all.
- andai 7y agoI know editorializing is against the rules but I love the current title, "WikiHow's bizarre art is created by an army of freelancers in the Philippines", it sounds so quaint and absurd.
- oefrha 7y agoYou can love what you love. I prefer a factual title.
- blackearl 7y agoI don't see how the current title isn't factual
- oefrha 7y agoI guess <em> isn’t doing its job, so let me temporarily break the guidelines: “GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines” != “an army of freelancers in the Philippines”.
- lovich 7y agoThose are functionally equivalent imo. The NYPD operates in other cities and countries. I wouldn't expect people to preface a description of them by saying they were a global police force based primarily in the Phillipines
- capableweb 7y agoI don't think so. > GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines Would mean: freelancers from all over the world, but most of them in the Philippines. While > an army of freelancers in the Philippines Would mean: freelancers from the Philippines, and only in the Philippines. At least that's my view as a non-native speaker, so maybe worth about 2 cents.
- tcookisfakeaf 7y agoLet me save you a click, & the authors future banal efforts: utilitarian work is a global effort of freelancers. Some just have different obligations as part of their freelance work than others. Shock. Awe.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoThe adjusted title is factual. 2+2=4 is factual. A title is not, because whoever created it had a purpose in mind (I'm being generous.)
- LudwigNagasena 7y agoSaves more than a click because it requires you to sign in to read the article.
- grammarxcore 7y agoThis isn't paywalled Medium content so you can simply find the close button and click it, be it on the sliding banner or the modal. That being said, that action does require an extra click.
- tptacek 7y agoSaving a click is probably an anti-goal of HN article titles.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoin this case, I say it's OK
- solarkraft 7y agoI honestly prefer a headline that tells me a bit of the main point over one that doesn't.