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Original submission title was "Why Simone Giertz spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", moderators changed it to "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", t
by anonymfus 3y ago
Original submission title was "Why Simone Giertz spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", moderators changed it to "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", the title of the video is "Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger".
- jjeaff 3y agothe very first sentence she says in her video is "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger". is there something about the title that bothers you? I get when someone complains that a title is misleading, but I don't understand the commentary when the meaning is basically the same and the person commenting didn't even seem to have watched the first 3 seconds of the video.
- anonymfus 3y agoI am not related to her in any way other than being her subscriber on YouTube, yet my nickname is attached to the HackerNews submission, and with current title I expect that somebody will eventually think that I am she, or that I pretend to be her.
- phito 3y agoYou're totally right. I really dislike the way mods edit titles here...
- fragmede 3y agoemail hn@ycombinator.com and ask dang to change it back, and tell him that reason.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- dang 3y ago"I" in a title refers to the author of the post (or video in this case). There's no implication that the author is also the submitter. For example, I think I need to go lie down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38288130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38288130 was on the front page for 20 hours yesterday, but it wasn't the submitter who thought they needed to go lie down. In terms of taking out the person's name, we do that a lot in titles—especially when it wasn't that way in the original—because HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20focus%20content%20personalities%20title%20&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- drewtato 3y agoI get the reason, but there's no need to worry. Most people here know that links aren't personal unless it's a Show/Ask/Tell HN. You can find other examples on the front page. HN has a thing against questions in titles because a lot of them are clickbait. I don't care about this rule but that's why it was changed.
- unwind 3y agoI understand that it's counter to the very specific brand of minimalism HN does, but it would be neat if Youtube submissions displayed the channel name without needing to click.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoEven if it worked the way that twitter URLs get displayed with the user's handle in the site section. Probably easier to do now that youtube has moved to @handles.