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The title was correct yesterday. Why is the title editorialized today? "What Does Nevada’s $35 Billion Fund Manager Do All Day? Nothing" This is the actual t

The title was correct yesterday. Why is the title editorialized today? "What Does Nevada’s $35 Billion Fund Manager Do All Day? Nothing" This is the actual title of the article, the page, and the printed version. There was no reason to have edited this except for optics. If true, that's absurd, dang.

nick7376182 2y ago
Because on HN we like titles to have information and not be click-bait. The WSJ title is prime click-bait.
- akira2501 2y ago
  So, clickbait is fine, as long as we just editorialize the title? That's an unusual standard.
  - Thorrez 2y ago
    Are you saying the new title is clickbait? How so?
  - pvg 2y ago
    Pretty much standard for HN, there are endless mod comments explaining it. Although they make more sense if you distinguish between 'changing' and 'editorializing'.
- Dylan16807 2y ago
  It's an accurate summary with no glaring missing pieces. Your definition of "prime click-bait" is way off.
Thorrez 2y ago
He doesn't literally do nothing, does he? So I don't think it was exactly correct. And it was vague because it didn't explain what the article was actually about.
ilamont 2y ago
There most definitely is a reason to edit titles: to reduce clickbait or shorten titles. The system even automatically removes certain clickbait elements, for instance "How" is stripped out of submitted titles.
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