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News.YC, could it be made clearer that submission titles have been subject to change by editors?
1 point by zoltz on Feb 18, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
Many submission titles are changed by editors (= mainly PG?). At least that's what happened to several of my own. I'm not complaining about this editing, it may well be helpful to enforce certain standards. And my most recent submission was ignored until an editor completely replaced the title. But, under these circumstances, shouldn't a user's submissions page contain some clarification, something like "submission titles may have undergone editorial change or replacement"?

Currently, casual visitors to a submissions page are misled into assuming that the submission titles have been produced by the user himself/herself. Even more so as it says "by <user>" below every submission.



Is it really a big deal? I feel that the spirit of this site is more about the targeted content and useful comments, than the cleverness of the submission title.

I could are less if any of my submissions were edited, especially if the editing made them more likely to be read.


I don't think it's such a big deal, and maybe I'm the only one, but I don't like it if people have every reason to believe I wrote something that I didn't write. For example, the title of my most recent submission now contains the term "reproductive output", and I hate that term because it somehow seems to associate people with factories. (This is not to say the term is incorrect, and anyway it's taken from the story header.) But such things are very subjective.


Oh, so YOU'RE the insensitive prick that thinks people are factories?

LOL, I think you're putting too much thought into it. As long as the titles are derived from the story and the headline fairly accurately, nobody is likely to judge you for a mis-applied opinion. Hell, nobody is likely to remember you for any given average story in the first place.


Interesting. Is there a general discussion area for News.YC? I have some ideas and suggestions but don't know where the proper forum is.


There is a thread for feature requests, see link at bottom of main page. (But I thought my suggestion here wouldn't really be a "feature".)


Thanks.




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