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does that invalidate the criticisms?
by scrame 3y ago
does that invalidate the criticisms?
- gary_0 3y agoIt's common on HN to note the date for reposts. The mods will usually add the year to the title if it's not included. So that's probably all that CoastalCoder was signaling.
- orhmeh09 3y agoUsers are not advised to do this themselves. The submission guidelines contain no such allowance. They specify a very limited set of cases where the title of a submission can be modified from the web page title.
- eesmith 3y agoThis is a long-established convention to include the year if the article is a year and a bit old. See dang, one of the moderators, affirm this multiple times at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=dang%20convention%20%22the%20year%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , most recently 17 days ago.
- orhmeh09 3y agoThe guidelines are here. It's unreasonable to expect people to search for them in a comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- eesmith 3y agoGuidelines are not strict rules, as Captain Barbossa pointed out, but let's assume they are. Since moderators have promoted this practice for at least a decade, it's much more likely your interpretation of the guidelines which is wrong. Any moderately good rules lawyer would point out the guideline is "please use the original title" not "please use only the original title" nor the even stronger "use only the original title", which turns the polite request into a requirement. Adding the year is not editorializing. Nor is adding "[video]" or "[pdf]", nor even adding the conference name and year as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216895 did 11 hours ago. Since there appears to be a conflict between your understanding of the guidelines and that of the moderators, you should take it up with them at hn@ycombinator.com in hopes of resolving the issue. After all, the guidelines say "If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." ;)
- gjvc 3y agorecency trolling; it's trivial to find the date of publication, but some people seem to think they can get karma points by their selfless public service...