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I wish there was a way to flag posts as "appropriate for HN but has a wildly misleading headline".
by causality0 6y ago
I wish there was a way to flag posts as "appropriate for HN but has a wildly misleading headline".
- m463 6y agoI would imagine some kind of a/b testing algorithms have come up with "wildly misleading headline" => more interest.
- eru 6y agoIf you assume that interestingness of headlines is somewhat randomly distributed, and that for each article there are more misleading headlines than accurate headlines, your relation is bound to be true, even if being misleading by itself doesn't help.
- projektfu 6y agoI think the "nautil.us" domain name on the end usually suggests that.
- dredmorbius 6y agoYou can email the mods (well, currently just dang) with concerns and/or alternate suggestions (splices from subheads/content are strongly preferred). He's appreciative and responsive. hn <at> ycombinator <dot> com