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The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?

• michaelhoffman 14y ago
  I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.
  • mkr-hn 14y ago
    I wouldn't mind so much if it were accountable. There's no mechanism to challenge a title change. Between that and the arbitrary banning of sites, I usually think twice about submitting good things.
    • samstave 14y ago
      Or to hovertext with "Submitted title: 'blah blah blah'"
• deleted 14y ago
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• crandles 14y ago
  Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.
  • catharsis 14y ago
    I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.
    • dpritchett 14y ago
      AFAIK all of the mods are YC insiders, so they'd know Marz by name.
      • MBlume 14y ago
        If it is as you imply, that's a pretty serious Theory of Mind failure on their part.
        • bhauer 14y ago
          Agreed, and more importantly, thank you for introducing me to the term "theory of mind." It seems a nice way to succinctly refer to the notion of understanding the perspective and level of familiarity of others.
• ananthrk 14y ago
  I agree. I am the original poster and I expanded the title to make it more clear. But looks like the mods don't see it that way.