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HN 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 pro
by netcraft 13y ago
HN 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.