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I really wish there was a changelog for headlines. Too often I see a critique like this and I have to figure out if the comment is referring to the current head

I really wish there was a changelog for headlines. Too often I see a critique like this and I have to figure out if the comment is referring to the current headline or a previous version. And, if the headline has already unknowingly been 'corrected', it leaves me wasting time trying to figure it out within that framing. And it shouldn't be the responsibility of the poster necessarily to quote it -- because there's no verifiability there.

swsieber 6y ago
> And it shouldn't be the responsibility of the poster necessarily to quote it -- because there's no verifiability there. Although there's no verifiability there, I would assume that most people on here comment in good faith.
vngzs 6y ago
The original title was the article title: Zoom zero-day discovery makes calls safer, hackers $200,000 richer
chrononaut 6y ago
Exactly. It would be nice if there was a little arrow (or other icon) next to the title of an article that simply showed the previous titles that article used -- much like previous gaming handles on Steam profiles; Simple yet effective.
mssundaram 6y ago
HackerNews is pretty opaque with its moderation
EE84M3i 6y ago
Like https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ ?
Black101 6y ago
a change log of everything the admins do would be nice, because they control a lot of the content that you and me see... they move threads to other posts, they hide posts... etc... they don't like to let nature take its course.
aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago
> I really wish there was a changelog for headlines. While we’re talking feature requests, I think each submission should offer an optional second weblink, reserved specifically for the “original” or “source” URL. It bothers me when the link is changed after lots of comments reference the previous one.
- rijoja 6y ago
  good luck with that when was the last time something changed on HN? My belief which is nothing but an educated guess is that the latest addition was the anti-procrastinate switch.

swsieber 6y ago

> And it shouldn't be the responsibility of the poster necessarily to quote it -- because there's no verifiability there. Although there's no verifiability there, I would assume that most people on here comment in good faith.

vngzs 6y ago

The original title was the article title: Zoom zero-day discovery makes calls safer, hackers $200,000 richer

chrononaut 6y ago

Exactly. It would be nice if there was a little arrow (or other icon) next to the title of an article that simply showed the previous titles that article used -- much like previous gaming handles on Steam profiles; Simple yet effective.

mssundaram 6y ago

HackerNews is pretty opaque with its moderation

EE84M3i 6y ago

Like https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ ?

Black101 6y ago

a change log of everything the admins do would be nice, because they control a lot of the content that you and me see... they move threads to other posts, they hide posts... etc... they don't like to let nature take its course.

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago

> I really wish there was a changelog for headlines. While we’re talking feature requests, I think each submission should offer an optional second weblink, reserved specifically for the “original” or “source” URL. It bothers me when the link is changed after lots of comments reference the previous one.

rijoja 6y ago
good luck with that when was the last time something changed on HN? My belief which is nothing but an educated guess is that the latest addition was the anti-procrastinate switch.