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the HN admin changed the link I posted. this is unethical - You are fundamentally changing what I posted. As a product manager here is a better solution - A.) A
by ugwigr 5y ago
the HN admin changed the link I posted. this is unethical - You are fundamentally changing what I posted. As a product manager here is a better solution - A.) Add a clear indicator that admin changed the link to redirect B.) Delete my link and post yours.
Shawdow changing what users post is wrong.
- pacoWebConsult 5y agoWaiting for the dang smackdown reply to this comment. You posted a secondary source (typically these get redirected to the primary source for any story), and used the editorialized title from the original journalist as your post title. Pretty commonplace on HN to correct these things so we can discuss the facts, not the reductive analysis of what someone writes about the primary source.
- ugwigr 5y agoas I suggested, admins should feel free to delete my post and even ban me from posting - but fundamentally changing what I posted is wrong.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoA redirected tag would be transparent and address both concerns
- ugwigr 5y agoexactly
- jacquesm 5y agoOP has a stake in the company whose link was posted, so it goes a bit deeper than that. That particular source had already been flagged as problematic taking the number of 'dead' links into account. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=businessofbusiness.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=businessofbusiness.co... and https://twitter.com/thebizofbiz/status/1450491847739068420 https://twitter.com/thebizofbiz/status/1450491847739068420 Where they make a lot of hay on being #1 with a story on HN.
- pacoWebConsult 5y agoEven worse than I thought. OP should probably get a warning if not ban that site outright. Especially since they're clearly attempting to astroturf HN.