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Why does it matter?

• delecti 12y ago
  I'm not who you're responding to, but in general I think it's a good thing when the article title gives you an idea of its content.
  • jbigelow76 12y ago
    I poke fun at the OP in my comment (as of right now) above, but to more seriously discuss what I brought up (would literal titles render quality content less discovered) but I have seen title changes on HN that made me glad I read the article before the title had been changed otherwise I would have missed it. Edit: to further expand, there have also been articles I click through to with "linkbait" titles, that ended up being poorly written or not what I thought they were going to be about. I close them after a couple of paragraphs (and don't feel cheated or tricked). Were I on another community I might be more wary of links to crap but since HN tends to skew more towards quality stuff I'd rather let the "linkbait" if enough of the community thought it was good enough to get it to the front page. I get suitably more discriminating when browsing the New section.