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I know Hacker News doesn't want you messing with article titles... but you couldn't have added "Rupert Murdoch: " to the title of your submission?
by wackget 3y ago
I know Hacker News doesn't want you messing with article titles... but you couldn't have added "Rupert Murdoch: " to the title of your submission?
- bdcravens 3y agoI believe it was originally submitted as such and was then changed to the actual title.
- dredmorbius 3y agoHN mods occasionally do this to reduce the extent to which people are responding off the title alone rather than the substance of the article, particularly in the case . This is especially so in the case of highly polarising topics, or people, as here, which tend to give rise to "title fever". I don't necessarily agree with this, either generally or in specific instances, but I understand the rationale. See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21622388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21622388> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23555000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23555000> "Title fever" generally: <https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20%22title%20fever%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...>
- mdp2021 3y agoForcing the public to check the source to have that title make sense.
- CodesInChaos 3y agoIn the original source, that's the first line of the headline, so I wouldn't even consider including the name "messing with the article title". But bdcravens is right, the submitter included the name, and it was later removed.