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> HN is notorious for changing the title so many times and frequently That's mostly because people regularly submit with misleading/false titles.
by bachmeier 5y ago
> HN is notorious for changing the title so many times and frequently
That's mostly because people regularly submit with misleading/false titles.
- Macha 5y agoMods are pretty happy to change titles if they feel it makes it clearer too, and have less than a 100% success rate at that. e.g. this topic they changed "Deno 1.10" to "Deno 1.1" in the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127316 Which are not the same things. Also I've seen attempts to clarify actors involved, but occasionally making it muddier. e.g. this one removes the fact that the response was from a Wireguard developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25759477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25759477 Or once or twice, just wrong. I'm not saying this is malicious, but the criteria for getting titles changed is definitely more loose than "title is false/misleading".