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Totally agree. However every single time I've tried to editorialize a title like this one to make it better the mods have changed it back to the page's title. I
by bluehex 13y ago
Totally agree. However every single time I've tried to editorialize a title like this one to make it better the mods have changed it back to the page's title. I imagine a lot of people have given up on even trying to make informative titles. It's the worst part about this forum in my opinion.
- flatline 13y agoAnd the suggestion to make a blog post about it, then submit that, is really just encouraging blog spam, which typically gets flagged into oblivion. I know that I will do so - a one or two sentence blog post should not IMO be submitted in lieu of the article itself. I personally thought the ability to editorialize with only flamebait titles being changed by the mods was way better. Yes, it led to arbitrary decisions by the mods, but I see two problems with the current system: - Information is often missing from the original, as it is here - The mods are not always so quick to rename, and it's frustrating to see an article that I previously read changed to another title, resulting in confusion when I see it. Further, The current system actually incentivizes over-editorializing the title to get a post boosted onto the front page, knowing it will be causally re-titled by the mods in due course.