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Original title is "How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate". Why the change from "Rigged" to "Moderated"?
by giardini 4y ago
Original title is "How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate". Why the change from "Rigged" to "Moderated"?
- ckvjdonee 4y agometa
- Overtonwindow 4y agoHN moderation, perhaps?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- bobleeswagger 4y agoSeems more like it was accounting for the knee-jerk reaction culture we have been building here. With a more aggressive title, the post may have been flagged or downvoted off of first impressions.
- chitowneats 4y ago[flagged]
- simple-thoughts 4y ago[flagged]
- SanjayMehta 4y agoManipulated would be more accurate.
- th3byrdm4n 4y agoLess aggressive language.
- joshuaheard 4y agoI think they meant "censored".
- 2-718-281-828 4y agothat's not okay. the title should be preserved. it's not hn's job to decide how a text and its title relate to upvotes and discussion. that is really questionable.
- dang 4y agoTitle editing practice on HN is extremely well established and has been for over a decade. When titles are misleading or linkbait, the site guidelines ask for them to be rewritten - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- aaron695 4y ago[dead]
- plaguepilled 4y ago"Rigged" is unnecessarily inflammatory and reduces credibility. It'd be equivalent to WSJ using the term when covering RoaringKitty and the GameStop news event.
- Kenji 4y ago[dead]
- dang 4y agoWe changed it to be less linkbaity, as the site guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- heartbreak 4y agoI think the misleading or linkbait titles on HN are a useful signal when deciding whether or not to read (or read the comments on) a submission. I would have been less, not more, likely to interact with this submission if the original title was used, because it demonstrates that the source is willing to mislead or clickbait. Maybe it’s time to revisit this policy?
- dang 4y agoSorry for the delay in replying. I think that's a real phenomenon but a second-order one - i.e. the benefits of the current policy are greater than that cost (and the other costs it has). It's all about tradeoffs.