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It's not editorialising --- it's the first sentence from the article, and it gives us a better idea of the article content than the article's own title gives us

• JoachimSchipper 16y ago
  It's an article about specifications and how people get in trouble with them - "why specs matter" is totally clear, "Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes" isn't.
  • mooism2 16y ago
    "Why specs matter" is clear about the ultimate point the article tries to make, but entirely fails to communicate the tone of writing it uses. "Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes" tells you what the article is like to read. I expect some people will dismiss the article without following the link to read it based on that alone. That's good! (Other people will find themselves compelled to click...) But it doesn't communicate that the article is ultimately about specs, it's true. The submitter has chosen to emphasise a different aspect of the article than did the author. That's not editorialising. It's presenting the article differently for the different context of HN (as opposed to the context of Mark Pilgrim's blog). Editorialising would be if the submitted title was "Specs are useless because no-one reads them properly" or "Mark Pilgrim is a moron and an asshole". Both of them have an element of truth, but it is a stretch to get there from the article itself.