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Who keeps changing the title, it was "And this, dear children, is why Java should stop taking drugs"? Quoting part of an article as the title is not necessaril
by smegel 13y ago
Who keeps changing the title, it was "And this, dear children, is why Java should stop taking drugs"?
Quoting part of an article as the title is not necessarily editorialization, and when the link is not actually an article, but a SO question, the original "title" may not be particularly interesting or informative.
Obviously inventing provocative titles simply to spark a flame-war is not on, but in this case the title was humorous (and interesting). The new title which is literally someones question on SO seems out of place on the front page, and not really the point of discussion.
Interesting titles can form part of the culture of a site like this, and over-zealous editing of titles damages the sense of community. It's probably the thing I dislike most about HN right now.
- eridius 13y agoThe original title was garbage. The only thing at all it told me was that the article was somehow related to Java. I did click on it when it was the original title, and was very disappointed to see it was just a bad answer (which has at this point been deleted by the SO mods) to a stupid question. The new title, on the other hand, tells me this is going to be about absurdly long factory classes, almost certainly using Java, and that I should probably be expecting humor rather than, say, a long article about an obscure interaction in Java that produces amusing results (which is what I had hoped I was getting with the original title). It also happens to be the title of the linked "article" as well, which I believe is what HN says you should be using rather than editorialized titles.