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Can we un-click-bait this by replacing "she" with "Sabine Hossenfelder"? Yes, the article itself uses the title as used but there is no reason to not clarify wh
by TheRealPomax 3y ago
Can we un-click-bait this by replacing "she" with "Sabine Hossenfelder"? Yes, the article itself uses the title as used but there is no reason to not clarify who this is about.
- dang 3y agoThe whole title is clickbaity, not just by lack of name, so I've replaced it with something boring and straightforward. (This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
- dredmorbius 3y agoThanks! The original submitted title (from NPR) was "She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity". I'd pinged HN mods about this, though dang ended up dong a wholesale replacement rather than s/She/Sabine Hossenfelder/.
- eh_why_not 3y agoThank you! Straightforward. Wish all titles were written like this.
- eh_why_not 3y agoSuch an annoying trend of click-bait too, and it's all over news sites. "Click here to know who this _woman_ is who did something so great"... As if being a woman, to the author and their target readers, supersedes in importance what the person actually achieved or had to say.