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Change title from 'Police' to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' please. Title is misleading/linkbaity.
by wilfra 14y ago
Change title from 'Police' to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' please. Title is misleading/linkbaity.
- jval 14y agoSorry mate, but Victoria is not a 'small Australian city'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)
- enneff 14y agoVictoria isn't a city at all, it's a state. But it's the Mildura police that issued this warning. Mildura is certainly a small town.
- jval 14y agoWithout this degenerating into an argument over semantics, by that line of reasoning any police officer would simply be a 'police officer in a small neighbourhood police station' no matter how large the police body is. The warning was issued by Victoria Police members and is on the Victoria Police website, I don't see there being any issue with its credibility.
- wilfra 14y agoThere is no problem with the credibility of the article - the problem is with the sensationalist/linkbaiting headline. Most people are going to assume upon reading the title that 'Police' refers to something a bit more substantial than the police force of Mildura, Australia.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoThey represent the state police force as a whole.
- mycheekyangel 14y agoMildura has a population over 30,000, so it's not a small town.
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- neurotech1 14y agoAustralia doesn't have "city police", they are all State (or Territory) Police.
- djt 14y agoIssued by the Victoria State Police, presiding over 227,600 km2 About the same area as England, Wales and Scotland. Also slightly larger than the "Small American city" of Utah.
- wilfra 14y agoFair enough, so it can be changed to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' or similar.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoWhen we refer to "police" in Australia it's 99% of the time state police. Federal police make up the rest as that typically won't come up in conversation as they deal with international issues.
- wilfra 14y agoOk well as an American when I think of 'police' I do not think of Australian police - State or otherwise.
- jlgreco 14y agoWhy? Lest people mistakenly think that the headline is referring to the organization of all police on the globe ever? When you see a news article about "Police say [whatever]" it is assumed that a particular organization is saying it. There isn't a global organization of police for it to be confused with.
- DanBC 14y agoI read the headline as "Some police somewhere", not as "All police in Australia". I'm aware of the 80 char limit on subject lines, and I realise that sometimes information is left out. Your suggestion is 28 characters more than "Police ".
- wilfra 14y agoNotice how TechCrunch (and every other publication that picked up this story) worded it: http://i.imgur.com/C5how.png http://i.imgur.com/C5how.png Australian Police is infinitely less misleading and more accurate than simply saying 'police'. I have to assume all of these downvotes I've received are from Australians or other foreigners making some kind of anti-American point. The fact remains - this is a US owned website and a topic about a US company. Saying 'Police' gives the impression it is American police - when it isn't.
- DanBC 14y ago> I have to assume all of these downvotes [...] HN has an international audience. Assuming that $THING defaults to $US_VERSION_OF_THING is suboptimal. It's silly to do it here, it's silly to do it with dates; it's silly to do it with anything. If you'd said that explicit declaration of nationality is better because it makes things clearer and easier to grok then you'd have got upvotes. But because you assumed US police and attacked the title as link baity you got downvotes.
- inopinatus 14y agoOn the contrary, "Police" NOS no more means "American Police" than ".com" means "US commercial website". Similarly, from an international perspective, Apple is an Irish company. If you don't believe me, ask your local tax authority.