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Why the hell would someone change the title from "Eight Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Know" to "OS X Command Line Utilities". The orig
by nicksergeant 12y ago
Why the hell would someone change the title from "Eight Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Know" to "OS X Command Line Utilities".
The original title is clearly more accurate / useful / canonical. The overwritten title is ambiguous. This is indeed not a list of every OS X command line utility.
- Karunamon 12y agoHN has a blurb in the guidelines about "number (rest of the title)" articles being rewritten. Never understood it or the reason why, but there you go.
- dang 12y agoI changed it. The HN guidelines call for taking linkbait out of titles ("every user should know") and for not having arbitrary numbers in titles—which are also a form of linkbait. Taking those things out as well as the redundancies (terminal/command-line, utilities/users) yields something pretty close to "OS X Command Line Utilities". I don't see any ambiguity. The article is precisely about OS X Command Line Utilities; it doesn't matter how many there are in the list. Nor is it misleading. There's no implication of completeness.