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It'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 li
by beedogs 13y ago
It'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.