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No. HN is a site whose primary purpose is to link to other sites (and maybe promote VC investments). If you don't want to click links to other sites, don't come

• lapcat 1y ago
  > If you don't want to click links to other sites, don't come here. I'm afraid that you've completely missed my point. I do want to click links to other sites, which is precisely why I come here. I said, for example, HN readers "avoid clicking on articles that they would be interested in reading" due to article titles that are uninformative. Nobody has the time or desire to click on every submitted HN article. (I think HN may average a submission every few minutes.) The point of summaries is to direct readers toward the articles that they would be interested in. This would also tend to increase the value of the submission comments, because currently HN readers click on articles that they regret clicking on and come back to the comments to complain about them. A summary is not a replacement for reading an article. A summary tells you why you should read an article. Call it a "pitch" rather than a "summary" if you like. The problem is that article titles themselves do not make good pitches, but that's the only current pitch we have.