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I wonder if HN should have a rule that prohibits editorializing.
by beltsazar 3y ago
I 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