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You can either not editorialize the title, and accept that the thread contains updates, or editorialize it and violate HN guidelines. Either choice will lead s
by alanfranz 3y ago
You can either not editorialize the title, and accept that the thread contains updates, or editorialize it and violate HN guidelines.
Either choice will lead somebody to complain
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoClearly they should only editorialize the ones that are wrong.
- lmm 3y agoThat doesn't help, HN mods still "correct" it back to the wrong title even in that case.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThat was sarcasm, as what's "wrong" is often subjective and up to interpretation.
- Dylan16807 3y agoAnd it's often not.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThen it gets flagged and removed. The end.
- Dylan16807 3y agoNo it doesn't. Good stories with bad titles almost always stay up.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoSo is it the mods who are editing titles of articles to be more sensational and clickbait-y? Because this happens all the damn time, flagging does nothing, etc.
- lmm 3y agoIn many cases yes. I don't know if it's an automated or manual process (it seems to happen less when the US is asleep, so I suspect it's manual?), but generally if you submit a link with a title edited to be less sensational and clickbait-y it gets changed to the linked article title.
- thanhhaimai 3y agoIt's clear from the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934#38368867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934#38368867 Specifically: use the original title, then express your view as a top level comment. If people agree with it, the comment is naturally voted up.
- alanfranz 3y agoYes, and the OP did abide by HN guidelines. But GGP implied that the title was misleading; but it was the original title! So, what to do if the original title is misleading? Admittedly this is a twitter thread, so no "actual title" exists.
- _Algernon_ 3y ago>So, what to do if the original title is misleading? I'd suggest posting an alternative, non-misleading source instead, or if none exists, don't post at all.
- andybak 3y agoThen this very interesting piece would never never come to my attention. Which is surely the worst outcome.
- walteweiss 3y agoOh yeah, I bet something dramatic would happen if neither of us would see it.
- 6510 3y agoBest is "you wont believe what happened when I tested NVMe SSDs"
- alanfranz 3y agoPersonally, I _do_ editorialize by posting a “summary” of what a post discusses, if there’s no real title. I try not to make it pass as my own opinion; sometimes it happened that mods reverted it to the original, less relevant title.