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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

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.

CoastalCoder 3y ago
Thanks. I wasn't aware that putting a date in the title might violate the guidelines.
- eesmith 3y ago
  It does not. You can see dang, one of the moderators, write: "It's the convention on HN to add the year to a title when the article isn't from this year." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867435 , write "On HN, it's the convention to add the year when a story is more than a year and a bit old." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306830 and write "It's just the convention to add the year in parens (and for commenters to mention when we missed one)." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244765 . Found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22dang%22%20%22add%20the%20year%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . If orhmeh09 has issue with how to interpret the submission guidelines, I suggest contacting hn@ycombinator.com to resolve the issue.
  - CoastalCoder 3y ago
    Thanks for clarifying the rules. In retrospect, my original comment was probably too terse. It's not obvious if I was suggesting that "(2019)" be added to the title, or if I was claiming that the article was outdated for some reason. That's my fault.
  - orhmeh09 3y ago
    The 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 ago
      As this is identical to orhmeh09's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215578 I point to my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221400 .

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.

CoastalCoder 3y ago

Thanks. I wasn't aware that putting a date in the title might violate the guidelines.

eesmith 3y ago
It does not. You can see dang, one of the moderators, write: "It's the convention on HN to add the year to a title when the article isn't from this year." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867435 , write "On HN, it's the convention to add the year when a story is more than a year and a bit old." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306830 and write "It's just the convention to add the year in parens (and for commenters to mention when we missed one)." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244765 . Found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22dang%22%20%22add%20the%20year%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . If orhmeh09 has issue with how to interpret the submission guidelines, I suggest contacting hn@ycombinator.com to resolve the issue.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago
  Thanks for clarifying the rules. In retrospect, my original comment was probably too terse. It's not obvious if I was suggesting that "(2019)" be added to the title, or if I was claiming that the article was outdated for some reason. That's my fault.
- orhmeh09 3y ago
  The 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 ago
    As this is identical to orhmeh09's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215578 I point to my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221400 .