HN 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 t

HN 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...>