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The title of the article is "Firefox terms of use." Why are we allowing the editorializing of the title?
by chrismcb 2y ago
The title of the article is "Firefox terms of use." Why are we allowing the editorializing of the title?
- low_tech_love 2y agoWhy not? The author of the post wanted to point to a specific part of the terms. How would they do it otherwise?
- dang 2y agoUsually it's best to do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's. Lots of past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20title%20cherry%20pick&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22level%20playing%20field%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
- tomp 2y agoThere were a lot of previous threads, none of which caught any real traction, because they didn't highlight exactly the controversial part like my title did.
- dang 2y agoYup, I agree that's a problem with this approach. In practice, there's a grey area - see my recent post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179132 (specifically the 3rd and 4th paragraphs).