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Until HN improves, I propose that we flag moronic titles (misleading, clickbait, just annoyingly moronic, and so on). In the long term HN should do something a
by bmacho 1y ago
Until HN improves, I propose that we flag moronic titles (misleading, clickbait, just annoyingly moronic, and so on).
In the long term HN should do something about it, e.g. editoralized titles.
- gchamonlive 1y agoThis is something that already happens. When there is a strong general opinion questioning the quality of the title, even if it's the same as the original title, if it's against HN directives they do get changed. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly these cases, but if you've been to HN long enough you've surely seen these changes.
- tomhow 1y agoI've updated the title to something less sensationalist and more representative of the article's content. HN does have a policy of using the original title from the submitted article, unless it is misleading or linkbait, and we try to be rigorous in enforcing it. Users can help us by emailing us (hn@ycombinator.com) when they see a case where a title seems to be misleading or linkbait.