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I really dislike the mods here changing titles to bend to personal views. I've had a few submissions that gained good traction and got heavy upvotes until a mod
by dsl 14y ago
I really dislike the mods here changing titles to bend to personal views. I've had a few submissions that gained good traction and got heavy upvotes until a mod changed the title to something meaningless and unrelated.
- jlgreco 14y agoThey seem to mostly change the titles to what the title of the actual article was. This is of course a terrible policy when the blog in question [edit: does not] use descriptive titles, or titles that only make sense if you are coming from the perspective of already being on the blog.
- dsl 14y agoA good example would be the post I made about a third party audit of CloudFlare's security and how they failed to block any of the most basic widely known attacks. The mods change to the academic title of the PDF paper failed to provide any sort of enlightenment about why it was interesting at all to HN readers.
- AJ007 14y agoSome stories would drop off the front page fast if the original title was used initially. By the time the moderator changes it, usually there is enough weight that people read them because of the # of upvotes.
- Houshalter 14y agoA lot of the titles are terrible. Like a single word or phrase that means absolutely nothing without context. I hope the mods are not doing that.