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It's clear from the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934#38368867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934#38368867 Specifically: use
by thanhhaimai 3y ago
It'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.
- yorwba 3y agoThe trick is to write the summary from the point of view of the original author, preferably by lifting a quote from the text. https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ has a recent example "Kevin Scott (MSFT CTO) inviting all Open AI employees to join MSFT" which sounds like the title of a third-party article describing said event, but actually directly points to the Microsoft CTO's tweet with the offer https://twitter.com/kevin_scott/status/1726971608706031670 https://twitter.com/kevin_scott/status/1726971608706031670 so it got edited to a quote "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation" which is an attempt to summarize the content but doesn't provide additional context so it might be condidered more clickbaity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364315
- devnullbrain 3y ago>So, what to do if the original title is misleading? Complain about it in a comment so that people who don't click the link are aware it's misleading. It's not attacking OP.
- KennyBlanken 3y ago....except people routinely submit articles with titles edited to be clickbaity and misleading, they get upvoted, and nothing happens.
- shiroiuma 3y agoThis sounds like the religious idea that "the magical Invisible Hand of the Free Market will ensure that only the best-run businesses survive."