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Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its pa

by _pius 14y ago

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

tptacek 14y ago
Not sure I see the relevance of that here. Do you personally think the repeated heated discussions of title editing are useful?
- _pius 14y ago
  While keeping threads on-topic is important to the health of the community, so is surfacing legitimate concerns about the moderation. When it comes to this sort of thing, I'm a big believer in the power of voting and flagging. If concerns over title editing weren't widely shared and worthy of discussion, this would not be the top comment in the Aaron Winborn thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229330 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229330 Ultimately, I think it's important to have these discussions in context rather than in the abstract.
  - tptacek 14y ago
    Sure. The original context I'm thinking of: the rewrite of: "A Drupal Developer is Dying and Needs Your Help." to its actual title: "Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust."
    - _pius 14y ago
      Sorry, I may not have been clear (and you may have replied to my comment before I finished editing it). I think that a specific and timely discussion — such as the top comment on the Aaron Winborn post — is more useful than a general and decontextualized protest thread against overeager post renaming.
      - tptacek 14y ago
        You don't think we're having the same discussion repeatedly? Because that's basically what the first comment in the renaming thread on that post says.
        _pius 14y ago
        I'm not convinced that having the discussion repeatedly is a bad thing. It's like the old 37Signals advice not to have defect backlogs, but to just work on the bugs that get reported all the time. Clearly the community thinks this issue should be addressed, which is why the threads keep popping up organically.

by _pius 14y ago

tptacek 14y ago

Not sure I see the relevance of that here. Do you personally think the repeated heated discussions of title editing are useful?

_pius 14y ago
While keeping threads on-topic is important to the health of the community, so is surfacing legitimate concerns about the moderation. When it comes to this sort of thing, I'm a big believer in the power of voting and flagging. If concerns over title editing weren't widely shared and worthy of discussion, this would not be the top comment in the Aaron Winborn thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229330 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229330 Ultimately, I think it's important to have these discussions in context rather than in the abstract.
- tptacek 14y ago
  Sure. The original context I'm thinking of: the rewrite of: "A Drupal Developer is Dying and Needs Your Help." to its actual title: "Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust."
  - _pius 14y ago
    Sorry, I may not have been clear (and you may have replied to my comment before I finished editing it). I think that a specific and timely discussion — such as the top comment on the Aaron Winborn post — is more useful than a general and decontextualized protest thread against overeager post renaming.
    - tptacek 14y ago
      You don't think we're having the same discussion repeatedly? Because that's basically what the first comment in the renaming thread on that post says.
      - _pius 14y ago
        I'm not convinced that having the discussion repeatedly is a bad thing. It's like the old 37Signals advice not to have defect backlogs, but to just work on the bugs that get reported all the time. Clearly the community thinks this issue should be addressed, which is why the threads keep popping up organically.