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I think the title doesn't describe properly this great article. I'm afraid it might be turning away readers who would otherwise really enjoy the coolness of thi

I think the title doesn't describe properly this great article. I'm afraid it might be turning away readers who would otherwise really enjoy the coolness of this read! The title can be read as "How to engineer pornography", at least that's how I read it at first. OP might want to edit it to remove any ambiguity.

chimeracoder 14y ago
> The title can be read as "How to engineer pornography", at least that's how I read it at first. OP might want to edit it to remove any ambiguity. I read an AMA on Reddit at one point from a guy who worked as a server engineer on some large porn website/network. The questions were mostly about engineering, but the answers were fascinating - when you think about it, porn networks have to face the same scaling issues as many startups, and they have some unique challenges (and also advantages) that other markets don't. I was secretly hoping this post would be something along those lines. Interesting nevertheless, but not what I was expecting!
- AYBABTME 14y ago
  Same here, I thought it would be about load handling, or maybe something about tricks they might have used on scene. Nevertheless, I also think this article is great! But if I were at work, maybe I would think twice before opening a link that might be NSFW. Or I can picture some people might not be interested in anything porn related, for many reasons.
  - EliRivers 14y ago
    "I thought it would be about load handling" Hur hur hur.
mhb 14y ago
When it was originally submitted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193112 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193112), it had the title How to repair a 230KV, 10 mile long coaxial power cable. But I suppose that that informative title would now be pedantically edited to the one you see here. As well, without the link-bait version it might only have blinked through the front page in 30 seconds.
- AYBABTME 14y ago
  The last few hours have proven me wrong, the possibly-misleading title has kept the article on the front page so far. Interesting.
specialist 14y ago
True. Worried the OP might be NSFW, I scanned the HN comments first.
MBCook 14y ago
Actually that's exactly what I thought it was, and I avoided it all day. I figured it was something about getting the lighting and camera setups right, or figuring out what sells best. It wasn't until I saw it on the EngineeringPorn subreddit that I realized what it really was and read it. Now I'm glad I did. Something like "Engineering Porn: Fixing 230kV Underground Cables" would have done it.

chimeracoder 14y ago

> The title can be read as "How to engineer pornography", at least that's how I read it at first. OP might want to edit it to remove any ambiguity. I read an AMA on Reddit at one point from a guy who worked as a server engineer on some large porn website/network. The questions were mostly about engineering, but the answers were fascinating - when you think about it, porn networks have to face the same scaling issues as many startups, and they have some unique challenges (and also advantages) that other markets don't. I was secretly hoping this post would be something along those lines. Interesting nevertheless, but not what I was expecting!

AYBABTME 14y ago
Same here, I thought it would be about load handling, or maybe something about tricks they might have used on scene. Nevertheless, I also think this article is great! But if I were at work, maybe I would think twice before opening a link that might be NSFW. Or I can picture some people might not be interested in anything porn related, for many reasons.
- EliRivers 14y ago
  "I thought it would be about load handling" Hur hur hur.

mhb 14y ago

When it was originally submitted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193112 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193112), it had the title How to repair a 230KV, 10 mile long coaxial power cable. But I suppose that that informative title would now be pedantically edited to the one you see here. As well, without the link-bait version it might only have blinked through the front page in 30 seconds.

AYBABTME 14y ago
The last few hours have proven me wrong, the possibly-misleading title has kept the article on the front page so far. Interesting.

specialist 14y ago

True. Worried the OP might be NSFW, I scanned the HN comments first.

MBCook 14y ago

Actually that's exactly what I thought it was, and I avoided it all day. I figured it was something about getting the lighting and camera setups right, or figuring out what sells best. It wasn't until I saw it on the EngineeringPorn subreddit that I realized what it really was and read it. Now I'm glad I did. Something like "Engineering Porn: Fixing 230kV Underground Cables" would have done it.