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The new title is not more informative; "Pseudo IPv4" is a new term that is meaningless before reading the article. The original title was more informative, espe
by Titanous 12y ago
The new title is not more informative; "Pseudo IPv4" is a new term that is meaningless before reading the article. The original title was more informative, especially in context with the URL domain.
- p1mrx 12y agoThe previous headline was creating too much cognitive dissonance, given that HN is a CloudFlare site with IPv6 disabled.
- dang 12y agoSorry, I didn't see this reply until now. I still think it was more informative. You left out the "Introducing", which makes it clear that the post is introducing a new product or technology, with a name related to IPv4 (and therefore, likely, to IPv6). That seems to me to say a lot more than the article title does. But I see how one might disagree. The real problem with the original article title is that it is linkbait (grand claim about a controversial topic) and misleading (there is far from universal agreement about this), and so violates both of HN's guidelines about titles. Therefore it needed changing, and when doing so we try where possible to take language from the article itself rather than inventing something of our own. A subtitle is often a good choice, because it's often what the article would have called itself if it weren't trying to be sensational, and that seems to me to be the case here.