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@dang Can we add [Rust] to the title?

by topher200 6y ago

tptacek 6y ago
That's not a thing we do here.
- saurik 6y ago
  (I am someone who clicked on this mostly to find out what language it was for and was disappointed it was Rust.) My solution to this problem--which I consider to be pretty serious: the best title for your blog is one that elides any context assumed by all of your posts, but then it is difficult to get Hacker News to appreciate a post about it due to the insane "exactly match the title" rule (which I one time caused serious problems for as I posted an article on Google+, which didn't have titles, and submitted the article myself here with a title, and no one even knew what to do)--is the next time I publish an article I am going to special case people coming from Hacker News and just give them a different website with a different title. (But the fact that I have to do that is ridiculous, and only works because Hacker News is so popular that it can one-offed.)
  - tptacek 6y ago
    "Exactly match the title" is not in fact the rule on HN.
    - saurik 6y ago
      And yet adding "[Rust]" is "not a thing we do here", so you are (as usual) being needlessly pedantic (and curt) with the goal of being correct, but unhelpful.
      - tptacek 6y ago
        I don't see the connection between the two statements. We very deliberately don't tag posts with categories; "non-siloed" is part of the ethos of the site. Meanwhile: dogged adherence to original titles is not the rule, nor is it the spirit of the rule; the spirit of the rule is "the submitter of an article has no privilege to editorialize; submissions are community property". So the rule is "please use original titles, unless they're misleading or linkbait". And, indeed, you'll see stories here that don't use the <title> all the time.
        tomjakubowski 6y ago
        You could have done a much better job in your original comment saying that explicit categorization is what "we don't do here," not the changing of titles.
        tptacek 6y ago
        Eh, I think we all did fine.

@dang Can we add [Rust] to the title?

tptacek 6y ago

That's not a thing we do here.

saurik 6y ago
(I am someone who clicked on this mostly to find out what language it was for and was disappointed it was Rust.) My solution to this problem--which I consider to be pretty serious: the best title for your blog is one that elides any context assumed by all of your posts, but then it is difficult to get Hacker News to appreciate a post about it due to the insane "exactly match the title" rule (which I one time caused serious problems for as I posted an article on Google+, which didn't have titles, and submitted the article myself here with a title, and no one even knew what to do)--is the next time I publish an article I am going to special case people coming from Hacker News and just give them a different website with a different title. (But the fact that I have to do that is ridiculous, and only works because Hacker News is so popular that it can one-offed.)
- tptacek 6y ago
  "Exactly match the title" is not in fact the rule on HN.
  - saurik 6y ago
    And yet adding "[Rust]" is "not a thing we do here", so you are (as usual) being needlessly pedantic (and curt) with the goal of being correct, but unhelpful.
    - tptacek 6y ago
      I don't see the connection between the two statements. We very deliberately don't tag posts with categories; "non-siloed" is part of the ethos of the site. Meanwhile: dogged adherence to original titles is not the rule, nor is it the spirit of the rule; the spirit of the rule is "the submitter of an article has no privilege to editorialize; submissions are community property". So the rule is "please use original titles, unless they're misleading or linkbait". And, indeed, you'll see stories here that don't use the <title> all the time.
      - tomjakubowski 6y ago
        You could have done a much better job in your original comment saying that explicit categorization is what "we don't do here," not the changing of titles.
        tptacek 6y ago
        Eh, I think we all did fine.