The submitted title ("Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics have been updated") broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Cherry-picking a detail from an article and putting it in the HN title is the quintessential kind of editorializing. Because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions, it ends up skewing an entire discussion. It also causes comments to make less sense when moderators come along and revert the title, as we've done here.
Submitting a story on HN doesn't convey any special right to frame it for other readers. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please do that in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.
> Because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions, it ends up skewing an entire discussion.
I haven't thought about this before on HN, but it makes a lot of sense. I'm curious if you or others have written about this intuition and your experience with it -- I'd like to understand it more.
Cherry-picking a detail from an article and putting it in the HN title is the quintessential kind of editorializing. Because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions, it ends up skewing an entire discussion. It also causes comments to make less sense when moderators come along and revert the title, as we've done here.
Submitting a story on HN doesn't convey any special right to frame it for other readers. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please do that in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.
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