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"Huston"? This does not bode well for the writing/editing process at whatever site this is.
by loeg 10mo ago
"Huston"? This does not bode well for the writing/editing process at whatever site this is.
- dylan604 10mo agoNot quite phonetically, but spelled as pronounced? I'd assume we're talking about Space City in Texas vs the street in NY pronounced like a house that weighs a ton.
- loeg 10mo agoDefinitely talking about Houston.
- jollyllama 10mo agoWe have a problem.
- dang 10mo ago"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." (Typos / spelling mistakes certainly fit this category) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- loeg 10mo agoIt's not tangential; it speaks to the editorial process or lack thereof at this publication that they couldn't catch a misspelling of a major American city. It casts the entire article in doubt.
- dang 10mo agoIt never feels tangential, and I'm not saying your point isn't a good one! It's just that if you zoom out far enough, it's obviously not the topic, and this sort of subthread has a way of attracting more attention (and therefore upvotes) than discussion that's about the topic and genuinely curious. Here's my favorite way of explicating that guideline: it's not that these things aren't annoying—they are annoying! That's why people make posts like this and upvote them. It's just that, at a global level, they aren't optimal for what we're, er, optimizing for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Hence that guideline.