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I like the post but I don't care for the click baity headline. Please add a few more words to headline when posting to HN.
by snorkel 13y ago
I like the post but I don't care for the click baity headline. Please add a few more words to headline when posting to HN.
- netcraft 13y agoHN policy is to always have the title the same as the source, for better or sometimes worse. There are many cases of them changing a link title even if the provided one was much more descriptive. Edit: relevant discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
- aw3c2 13y agoActually it is not. And I wish mods were not so overzealous. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > (...) please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
- netcraft 13y agoRelevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
- simias 13y agoIn this case the problem is that it's blogspam, a direct link to the metafilter thread would have been sufficient, it gives all the context we need.
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