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Title: "Manchester City Council" which links to a the website of MCC. Is that supposed to be sufficient to explain why this is on HN?
by zwischenzug 14y ago
Title: "Manchester City Council"
which links to a the website of MCC.
Is that supposed to be sufficient to explain why this is on HN?
- carlesfe 14y agoI think the title was changed; the original one was something like "All institutional webpages should be like this one"
- mkopinsky 14y agoThe original title was "How government sites should be designed".
- mixmax 14y agochanging it was a bad decision IMO. Without the context this submission makes no sense at all.
- evo_9 14y agoYes, the title changing has gotten seriously out of hand lately. I don't get it either, it's not like the original title was confusing (unlike the new title).
- lucb1e 14y agoI was thinking the same. Could a mod elaborate on this please?
- charliepark 14y agoI don't know that any of them will actually respond … a number of people have been complaining about this, and I can't recall a time when they've responded at all, let alone with anything reasoned, or reasonable. But it's ridiculous. The best word I have for it is that it feels paternalistic. I think there are many occasions where HN commenters write dumb things and reflect on themselves poorly. And in many cases, the original title of the linked page is fine. But people writing blog posts (or just titling demo pages or other sites, like the one linked here) aren't writing their titles with the intent that their title will give context to the readers of a random forum. It's bizarre that HN mods change the titles, and I really wish they would stop.