Comment by lapcat
1 month ago
> The headline is defensible but, in my opinion, quite sensationalised.
How would you write the headline?
There's always a criticism of headlines, but headlines are necessarily short. It's like critics want the entire article text to appear in the headline, which is impossible.
I don't know what defensible but sensationalized is supposed to mean.
> I think a lot of the interactions people had with this submission, especially early on, were because the headline made them mad, rather than because of its contents.
That's pure speculation on your part, because the headline is very short and vague. In any case, it's not my fault if people read the headline but not the article. I want people to read the article, not just the headline.
I would probably aim for a title like ‘what does the “Enhanced Visual Search” feature do in iOS 18 and MacOS 15?’ Or ‘how much data is sent to Apple for the new “Enhanced Visual Search” in Photos’.
I think the early comments on this submission were because the headline made them mad because they were incurious and not particularly related to the topic of the article making – most could be under any article about Apple Photos. One early comment was about switching to alternatives to Photos and another was, paraphrasing, ‘I’m so angry. I don’t care about homeomorphic encryption or differential privacy’. Others seemed to follow the theme of the latter. After a while a comment attempted an overview of some of the technical details, which I thought was better.
Perhaps a more precise complaint is that many of the early comments didn’t really depend on the contents of the article – they could go under many Apple submissions – and I think it’s more likely for comments like that to be written while incensed.
I don’t think you’re to blame for the comments people choose to leave.
> I would probably aim for a title like ‘what does the “Enhanced Visual Search” feature do in iOS 18 and MacOS 15?’ Or ‘how much data is sent to Apple for the new “Enhanced Visual Search” in Photos’.
In my opinion, these are actually misleading headlines that don't represent the content of the article. In fact, I've never used the Enhanced Visual Search feature, nor do I know exactly how much data is sent to Apple.
My article was never intended as a kind of feature introduction that you might see in the news media. The main point was always about user consent for uploading data to Apple. To be clear, my article is and has always been a complaint. Thus, I think the headline is accurate. I am complaining, and readers should know that.
> another was, paraphrasing, ‘I’m so angry. I don’t care about homeomorphic encryption or differential privacy’.
> many of the early comments didn’t really depend on the contents of the article
The headline of the article didn't mention homeomorphic encryption or differential privacy, so they must have read the contents.