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Well there was the case of one of the original airbnb scandal submissions [1] having it's title changed from: "AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host" to: "
by mcphilip 15y ago
Well there was the case of one of the original airbnb scandal submissions [1] having it's title changed from:
"AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host"
to:
"Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned"
The rational at the time was that the change was done since the original title didn't match that of the linked blog post -- see pg's comment[2]. The counterargument being that the original title helped increase awareness of an important story that would have been harder to accomplish with the generic title.
[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811080 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811080
[2]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814681 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814681
- eridius 15y agoSo then why do the guidelines say You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
- Retric 15y ago"AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host" Is spin. It drives up links due to an emotional reaction. If your linking to a post called 'lost sheep' and you could change it to 'efficient distributed counting' because that's more descriptive and without spin. But, 'lost sheep (distributed counting)' is more in the spirit of HN IMO.