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Poll: Do you believe informative titles should be swapped for original titles?

5 pointsby zachallaunover 13 years ago
Something I've noticed: Articles are submitted with informative titles, only to be switched to their (sometimes non-informative, sometimes link-bait) original titles.<p>I believe that editorialized or misleading titles should be changed, but a descriptive title helps me decide what to read.<p>Perhaps I'm completely off on this one, but I was curious what others thought about this.<p>*small edit for accuracy.

2 comments

Caspianover 13 years ago
<a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> advises making certain changes to titles, and says you can make up your own titles, and said "Please don't do things to make titles stand out". There was a warning that a submitted editorialising title may be edited.<p>I generalised that to changing any link-bait (or otherwise unsuitable) title to something that better fits the intent of this site, which I think is a good guideline.
pgover 13 years ago
It's not a trend; we've always done it.
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