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To be honest, I wouldn't have opened the topic if the original title (Denmark Extends Business Aid to Increase Spending By $15 Billion) was used as this was som
by m-p-3 7y ago
To be honest, I wouldn't have opened the topic if the original title (Denmark Extends Business Aid to Increase Spending By $15 Billion) was used as this was somewhat uninteresting overall, "that companies which pay out dividends, buy back own shares or are registered in tax havens won’t be eligible for any of the aid programs" was the more interesting piece of information I might have otherwise skipped.
- dang 7y agoThe answer to this is that the baitier title can help bootstrap an article onto the front page and that's not always bad. Once it's on the front page, that's enough of an indication that there might be something interesting about the article, so it's not going to damage it as much to restore the title. I tend not to include this point in top-level public comments because subtleties like this make the explanation too complicated. I say "not always bad" but in the present case I do think it was bad, because there really isn't much of interest in the article. Even though the cherry-picked point was the more interesting detail, it only got a single sentence. That's not enough to support a non-generic discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generic%20discussion&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).