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The documents are not "explosive." The title should be updated to remove linkbait.
by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
The documents are not "explosive." The title should be updated to remove linkbait.
- ohduran 7y agoIt's business insider, what did you expect?
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoWe don't expect better from them, but we expect better from HackerNews.
- colmvp 7y agoI'm fine with users not editorializing the headline, instead opting to use the original title. This is so that no one can accuse the poster from editorializing it themself and allow dang or one of the HN mods be the one to change it.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoI can see the reasoning there, but that approach works best when people refrain from posting articles with garbage clickbait titles, in the first place. The current solution isn't terrible; we don't need to trust the average submitter to come up with a title that's better than the original, and the bad cases tend to get fixed by the mods eventually. Unfortunately it does mean we see clickbait titles in the stream for some time, and the clickbait gets rewarded. We're also assuming that the article is worth reading despite the clickbait title. If an article has a seriously misleading title, that tells us something about the kind of journalism we can expect in the article itself. Ideally, I'd rather such sites never make it to HN.
- Vysero 7y agoI haven't seen a single internal document on child labor or corporate plans to assassinate the president... This all seems rather tame considering the amount of flack FB has been taking in recent years.
- Vysero 7y agoThe down-votes? Does HN have a strict no humor allowed policy that I wasn't aware of, geesh.
- lightedman 7y agoApparently on-topic humor isn't allowed any more. Hooray control freaks with downvoting capabilities!
- hollerith 7y ago>humor isn't allowed any more Humor has IME always had a high likelihood of ending up gray (in text color) on this site.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've defused the title above.
- buboard 7y agooccupational hazards intensify !