The title was correct yesterday. Why is the title editorialized today? "What Doe...

nick7376182 · 2024-07-14T18:45:27 1720982727

Because on HN we like titles to have information and not be click-bait. The WSJ title is prime click-bait.

Dylan16807 · 2024-07-15T05:23:55 1721021035

It's an accurate summary with no glaring missing pieces. Your definition of "prime click-bait" is way off.

akira2501 · 2024-07-14T18:59:15 1720983555

So, clickbait is fine, as long as we just editorialize the title? That's an unusual standard.

pvg · 2024-07-14T20:29:54 1720988994

Pretty much standard for HN, there are endless mod comments explaining it. Although they make more sense if you distinguish between 'changing' and 'editorializing'.

Thorrez · 2024-07-14T19:02:45 1720983765

Are you saying the new title is clickbait? How so?

ilamont · 2024-07-14T19:24:22 1720985062

There most definitely is a reason to edit titles: to reduce clickbait or shorten titles.

The system even automatically removes certain clickbait elements, for instance "How" is stripped out of submitted titles.

Thorrez · 2024-07-14T18:59:47 1720983587

He doesn't literally do nothing, does he? So I don't think it was exactly correct. And it was vague because it didn't explain what the article was actually about.