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Could the title please be changed to the title of the Wikipedia article, so that it is boring and nobody bothers to read it. That seems to be the intention beh
by dane-pgp 6y ago
Could the title please be changed to the title of the Wikipedia article, so that it is boring and nobody bothers to read it. That seems to be the intention behind this HN guideline:
"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- derekp7 6y agoBelieve it or not, the "boring titles" often times get better attention. I found that out a couple weeks ago, when I posted my open source project using just the title of the website and it not only made it to the front page, but stayed there for several hours. Whereas I tried for the last several years with more descriptive titles, and it would get at most 1 - 3 upvotes before disappearing from the new submissions queue.