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Original title - "The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux" Why remove "The best"? Feels like unnecessary editorializing

superdisk 5y ago
I've noticed this too around here. Titles will be changed and their meaning altered, effectively putting words in the original author's mouth. Seems kinda unethical to me, but it happens all the time.
- atatatat 5y ago
  Check the guidelines, it encourages neutering headlines in multiple ways; believe the idea is people can form their own judgement on whether it's good or bad.
  - skohan 5y ago
    I believe it is intended to limit click-bait. I'm happy HN does this kind of stuff, because it increases the quality of discussion.
- sp332 5y ago
  HN automatically edits out some patterns from titles. If it happens to you and you want to put it back, you can just edit the title again after submission and it will stick.
p1necone 5y ago
Because it's an opinion and doesn't give any useful information to anyone reading the thread/article.
- joe_the_user 5y ago
  I found the headline here actually incomprehensible. Had Microsoft built Windows 11 on top of WSL? Built part of it that way? What you'd means is "Windows 11 includes a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux" if you wanted to removed the editorializing. But the article is editorializing - they don't like the rest of windows 11 and say so.
- skolos 5y ago
  Without "the best" the title reads to me as that they somehow removed chunk of original Windows and replaced it with WSL. That's why I came to this topic. I thought to myself - really - so they now replacing windows code with Linux? Original title is clear and not clickbaity.
  - fomine3 5y ago
    Same. I think modified title is more clickbait by confusing.
- GordonS 5y ago
  But it's the opinion of the article author - the article that is being linked to. And removing this makes the title nonsensical. Unless the title is too long or is obvious scummy clickbait, IMHO titles shouldn't be editorialised.

superdisk 5y ago

I've noticed this too around here. Titles will be changed and their meaning altered, effectively putting words in the original author's mouth. Seems kinda unethical to me, but it happens all the time.

atatatat 5y ago
Check the guidelines, it encourages neutering headlines in multiple ways; believe the idea is people can form their own judgement on whether it's good or bad.
- skohan 5y ago
  I believe it is intended to limit click-bait. I'm happy HN does this kind of stuff, because it increases the quality of discussion.
sp332 5y ago
HN automatically edits out some patterns from titles. If it happens to you and you want to put it back, you can just edit the title again after submission and it will stick.

p1necone 5y ago

Because it's an opinion and doesn't give any useful information to anyone reading the thread/article.

joe_the_user 5y ago
I found the headline here actually incomprehensible. Had Microsoft built Windows 11 on top of WSL? Built part of it that way? What you'd means is "Windows 11 includes a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux" if you wanted to removed the editorializing. But the article is editorializing - they don't like the rest of windows 11 and say so.
skolos 5y ago
Without "the best" the title reads to me as that they somehow removed chunk of original Windows and replaced it with WSL. That's why I came to this topic. I thought to myself - really - so they now replacing windows code with Linux? Original title is clear and not clickbaity.
- fomine3 5y ago
  Same. I think modified title is more clickbait by confusing.
GordonS 5y ago
But it's the opinion of the article author - the article that is being linked to. And removing this makes the title nonsensical. Unless the title is too long or is obvious scummy clickbait, IMHO titles shouldn't be editorialised.