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This isn't a cherry-picked detail. It's the second major point of the article, and, arguably, the most important point.
by pmiller2 7y ago
This isn't a cherry-picked detail. It's the second major point of the article, and, arguably, the most important point.
- dang 7y ago"Second"/"arguably" restates the issue. That's editorializing. HN submitters need to use the title field for articles' actual titles, rewriting them only if they're misleading or linkbait, and then only in ways that are accurate and neutral. Unlike on some other social news sites, on Hacker News submitting an article confers no special rights over the submission and, in particular, no right to frame for others what they should consider important. Titles are the most powerful influence on threads—by far, actually—so this is a big deal. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22level%20playing%20field%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- pmiller2 7y agoNo, I'm sorry, it is not editorializing. You are right that the title has a huge influence on the submission's fate. When an article buries the lede that far, I want it exposed in the submission title.