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Should add "rust" in the title, so that we know what the article is talking about. If you're one of the "rust/go in title" haters... please go rage somewhere e

Should add "rust" in the title, so that we know what the article is talking about. If you're one of the "rust/go in title" haters... please go rage somewhere else.

qingcharles 2y ago
This is literally the worst post title I've ever seen on HN :D
- solarkraft 2y ago
  The corresponding rule is worded so harshly that I’m not surprised the poster didn’t dare to change it ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
  - lmm 2y ago
    Not merely worded but also enforced that way.
    - latexr 2y ago
      That’s not true. The moderators accept suggestions and changes titles to something other than the original time and again. It is a guideline after all, it depends on context. I have zero doubts a more descriptive title would be accepted in this instance, as long as it were accurate and not clickbait. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by%3Adang%20change%20title&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by%3Adang%20change%20title&sor...
      - lmm 2y ago
        I've seen many cases of useful descriptive titles being switched to uninformative ones (Stephen Hawking's thesis is one that immediately comes to mind). Every title edit that I've seen in realtime has looked like a robotic replacement with the page title. (Perhaps whatever moderators are active in my timezone are less flexible about their guidelines than dang is)
- pavlov 2y ago
  At least it was a pleasant surprise that it’s not about the Humane AI Pin.
  - qingcharles 2y ago
    I'd already forgotten about that thing...!
skeledrew 2y ago
[flagged]
tyrust 2y ago
> The Pin type (and the concept of pinning in general) is a foundational building block on which the rest of the the Rust async ecosystem stands. Was this not the first sentence of the article when you wrote this?
- throwaway89336 2y ago
  It's about beeing able to quickly scan titles and decide if it's worth clicking on. If all titles were similar, we would spend a lot of time clicking each link to see if it is relevant.
gumby 2y ago
Why would anyone hate that? It’s a good marker, like [video], that tells folks like me not to bother clicking.
- bowsamic 2y ago
  It’s against the rules for one
  - gumby 2y ago
    The “rules” are guidelines. Good titles should be useful and encourage those interested to read and do a service to those not interested by preemptively not wasting their time. Consider the following guidelines: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. > If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title. I don’t want a video so this is a good warning. “I wrote hello in rust” is not an article I want to read. “Type erasure in rust” could be an article I might click on. The title “Pin” is so meaningless it’s like clickbait: someone might waste their time clicking on it and be annoyed, especially if they read synchronously (I just open a bunch of tabs in background in a single pass so it’s not as bad for me). In this case I clicked the comments first to see what would happen if I were to click on the article. During the week I’d just skip it. Yesterday there was a link to a tweet, so the title had to be made up. It could have been “Biden drops out” (people have lots of context) but was “Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate”. Just “Biden” would have been clickbait.
    - bowsamic 2y ago
      Even if you claim it's a guidelines, it's enforced like a rule
      - gumby 2y ago
        Not in my experience, but YMMV
- ramon156 2y ago
perilunar 2y ago
It does indeed have nothing to do with boats.
- nazka 2y ago
  But it also has everything to do withoutboats.
Retr0id 2y ago
I was disappointed not to see Intel Pin (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...)

Should add "rust" in the title, so that we know what the article is talking about. If you're one of the "rust/go in title" haters... please go rage somewhere else.

qingcharles 2y ago

This is literally the worst post title I've ever seen on HN :D

solarkraft 2y ago
The corresponding rule is worded so harshly that I’m not surprised the poster didn’t dare to change it ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
- lmm 2y ago
  Not merely worded but also enforced that way.
  - latexr 2y ago
    That’s not true. The moderators accept suggestions and changes titles to something other than the original time and again. It is a guideline after all, it depends on context. I have zero doubts a more descriptive title would be accepted in this instance, as long as it were accurate and not clickbait. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by%3Adang%20change%20title&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by%3Adang%20change%20title&sor...
    - lmm 2y ago
      I've seen many cases of useful descriptive titles being switched to uninformative ones (Stephen Hawking's thesis is one that immediately comes to mind). Every title edit that I've seen in realtime has looked like a robotic replacement with the page title. (Perhaps whatever moderators are active in my timezone are less flexible about their guidelines than dang is)
pavlov 2y ago
At least it was a pleasant surprise that it’s not about the Humane AI Pin.
- qingcharles 2y ago
  I'd already forgotten about that thing...!

skeledrew 2y ago

[flagged]

tyrust 2y ago

> The Pin type (and the concept of pinning in general) is a foundational building block on which the rest of the the Rust async ecosystem stands. Was this not the first sentence of the article when you wrote this?

throwaway89336 2y ago
It's about beeing able to quickly scan titles and decide if it's worth clicking on. If all titles were similar, we would spend a lot of time clicking each link to see if it is relevant.

gumby 2y ago

Why would anyone hate that? It’s a good marker, like [video], that tells folks like me not to bother clicking.

bowsamic 2y ago
It’s against the rules for one
- gumby 2y ago
  The “rules” are guidelines. Good titles should be useful and encourage those interested to read and do a service to those not interested by preemptively not wasting their time. Consider the following guidelines: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. > If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title. I don’t want a video so this is a good warning. “I wrote hello in rust” is not an article I want to read. “Type erasure in rust” could be an article I might click on. The title “Pin” is so meaningless it’s like clickbait: someone might waste their time clicking on it and be annoyed, especially if they read synchronously (I just open a bunch of tabs in background in a single pass so it’s not as bad for me). In this case I clicked the comments first to see what would happen if I were to click on the article. During the week I’d just skip it. Yesterday there was a link to a tweet, so the title had to be made up. It could have been “Biden drops out” (people have lots of context) but was “Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate”. Just “Biden” would have been clickbait.
  - bowsamic 2y ago
    Even if you claim it's a guidelines, it's enforced like a rule
    - gumby 2y ago
      Not in my experience, but YMMV
ramon156 2y ago

perilunar 2y ago

It does indeed have nothing to do with boats.

nazka 2y ago
But it also has everything to do withoutboats.

Retr0id 2y ago

I was disappointed not to see Intel Pin (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...)