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I dont agree with bowdlerization happening on Hacker News, wrt legitimate titles. This is effectively censorship @dang (I'm addressing it to you because you spe
by rdslw 6y ago
I dont agree with bowdlerization happening on Hacker News, wrt legitimate titles. This is effectively censorship @dang (I'm addressing it to you because you speak most often here, and set the tone, not because you personally did it. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expurgation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expurgation
I do understand that having less clickbaity _content_ is noble goal (and reason we read HN), but let US do our job in giving upvotes to good topic or flaging bad ones, while having ORIGINAL titles author of the post intended, not the one the censor considers proper.
- dang 6y agoThe problem is that a title on HN's front page doesn't just represent what the author believes. It also represents what "HN" believes, to some extent. Of course, HN doesn't exist as a person and doesn't believe anything at all, but that doesn't matter, because people receive those titles as if it does. So there are multiple ways that a title can be misleading and we have to balance them. Upvotes alone don't solve this. On the contrary: indignation routinely gets the most upvotes. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not—people just upvote angry shit more than they upvote anything else. If we don't want the front page to be all-angry and mostly-false all day, then moderators have to intervene. Is that censorship? That's up to you—people use that word to mean whatever sort of intervention they don't like. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22upvotes%20alone%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...