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Why even title a post on a blog if it conveys zero information?
by psychometry 13y ago
Why even title a post on a blog if it conveys zero information?
- renownedmedia 13y agoTitles are required for nearly all blogging software.
- alanh 13y agohttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=rhetorical+question http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rhetorical+question
- anildash 13y agoI had just wanted to document the moment and thought it was kind of funny to do sort of the anti-Upworthy headline.
- Houshalter 13y agoIt seems like HN has a ton of uselessly vague titles. I don't know if I should ignore them or click on all of them to find out what they are.
- beedogs 13y agoIt's because the powers-that-be decided, in their infinite wisdom, that any modification of a link's title is "editorializing". Thus we get ridiculous stuff like this, instead of something more illuminating.
- gus_massa 13y agoOfficial post: "Why we revert to original titles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 (414 points, by pg, 127 days ago, 220 comments) I agree that too much editorializing is bad, but textual titles are also bad. In the last weeks I feel that the rules had been relaxed a little, but I haven't done any systematic measurement.
- beedogs 13y agoBecause it's their blog, not yours, and because a blog isn't a newspaper article?
- eksith 13y agoThe post was on a blog, not a news article and nonsensical titles are commonplace. And the submitter followed the HN guidelines of using the same title of the post.