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Yet another click-bait headline - on the verge of outright misrepresentation. The tweet in question (https://twitter.com/houseparty/status/1244827034406121472
by tobyjsullivan 6y ago
Yet another click-bait headline - on the verge of outright misrepresentation.
The tweet in question (https://twitter.com/houseparty/status/1244827034406121472 https://twitter.com/houseparty/status/1244827034406121472) clearly offers the bounty for "the first individual to provide proof [that the recent hacking rumors were spread by a paid commercial smear campaign to harm Houseparty]". The article goes to great lengths to explain this is exactly what didn't happen and so no bounty makes sense.
Edit: I just noticed the headline of the article is actually more correct. Maybe someone can fix the title on this post. As I write this comment, the title on the post is "Epic refuses to pay out $1M bug bounty promised for discovering exploit"
- floatingatoll 6y agoIf you email the mods using the footer Contact link, they'll consider the change you propose.
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- dang 6y agoYes, that was egregious. Submitters: rewriting titles like that is against the site guidelines and will eventually cause you to lose submission rights on HN. The guideline says to rewrite titles only to make them less baity and misleading—not more. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html