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Please change the title to "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)".
by ilya_m 1y ago
Please change the title to "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)".
- dang 1y agoWe've added the year (of the article) to the title. Thanks!
- olddustytrail 1y agoI'm struggling to understand why that has improved anything.
- genter 1y agoYou're struggling to understand why someone is being pedantic on this site?
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- dang 1y agoIt's just a convention on HN to put the year in parens at the end of the title when an article is more than a year old. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20convention%20year&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- dredmorbius 1y agoAs dang's written previously: HN's convention of putting years on titles is definitely not intended to devalue an article—on the contrary! Historical material has always been welcome here—more here than nearly anywhere else on the internet. One of the best functions of HN is that it helps spread knowledge of history. Knowing the year helps orient people to what they're reading. It's interesting to know when something was written, and often important for understanding it correctly. Also it provides a nice demarcation between news of the moment and older articles, which are often uncorrelated and go deeper than the mass of current stories. That's a good thing. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944257> For myself: it's helpful to know that something isn't immediately current, and also to realise that there may be earlier discussions with interesting aspects to them to search.
- olddustytrail 1y agoThat makes obvious sense. Thanks.