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I think that this proposal would ultimately be to the detriment of HN. I don't want to have to click through your blog to get to the article, even if you have
by jlgreco 13y ago
I think that this proposal would ultimately be to the detriment of HN. I don't want to have to click through your blog to get to the article, even if you have the purest of intentions and aren't just looking for ad impressions, just because HN moderators cannot be arsed to exercise discretion when re-titling posts.
I want to be able to read a link, get a reasonable impression of what content is behind it and why it was posted, click it once, and then read the content. Anything else is a sub-par user experience.
- cbhl 13y agoFair enough. What do you propose submitters should do if the page's original title doesn't give you a "reasonable impression of what content is behind it"? Simply not submit the article altogether?
- jlgreco 13y agoI think that submitters should edit titles if they think the original titles are unreasonable. If moderators think that the edited title is unreasonable, they could revert or otherwise change it. Basically, everyone should operate as the rules claim they should operate. The problem is that moderators semi-regularly edit titles that really didn't have editorial twist to be completely uninformative. As far as I am concerned, there isn't a policy problem, there is a moderator problem.