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From the article: 'The Department of Justice announced...that Cohen had presided over insider trading "on a scale without known precedent in the hedge-fund indu
by azylman 12y ago
From the article: 'The Department of Justice announced...that Cohen had presided over insider trading "on a scale without known precedent in the hedge-fund industry."'
- acqq 12y agoIt's still not the biggest ever scandal. And the title on HN is still against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The current title here "Inside the Biggest-Ever Hedge-Fund Scandal" is not the original content title (even if it is inside of the title tag in the HTML, as karkarlawawa noted) and is as linkbait as linkbait can be.
- dang 12y agoI don't quite agree; the document title is a legit option for "original title" and gets used all the time on HN. This title also isn't the worst linkbait we've seen (or even seen today). But you're right that it is hyperbolic and—uncharacteristically for the New Yorker—a bit breathy, and also not something whose accuracy we're in position to verify, so we'll adopt your suggestion. Hopefully that will not lead to another big off-topic discussion the other way.