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This is bad editorializing. You're putting words in the author's mouth that cannot even be found on that page. Don't do that. Edit: Thanks to the mods or whoe
by runiq 3y ago
This is bad editorializing. You're putting words in the author's mouth that cannot even be found on that page.
Don't do that.
Edit: Thanks to the mods or whoever fixed it.
- beltsazar 3y agoI wonder if HN should have a rule that prohibits editorializing.
- dvt 3y agoNot sure if this is facetious, but HN does have a rule that prohibits editorializing. From the Guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
- beltsazar 3y agoNo, I was genuinely asking because I had found many HN posts were editorialized.
- voxelghost 3y agoMaybe HN should auto-pull title from URL, and then add the posters title as a form of "subtitle/comment"
- pindab0ter 3y agoThis assumes those titles are usable, which they often are not.
- yencabulator 3y agoPopulating the field automatically might nudge people toward doing the right thing, though.
- vacuity 3y agoHalf-joke: HN scrapes first few text lines in HTML (in case the very first one isn't the title) and one of them has to be used as the title.
- pindab0ter 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- distcs 3y agoIf anyone is confused what the "bad editorializing" is ... Actual title of article: Local Async Executors and Why They Should be the Default The title posted to HN: Async rust – are we doing it all wrong? The title has been fixed now. But yeah it is annoying to see badly editorialized titles. It is against the guidelines -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.