Not an affiliate, nor a fan of nytimes.. Not sure why the title was changed and the context removed from the submission. I was highlighting an interesting ux where the review of the poem appears in context to the verses. And I could skip login in my private window in brave.
You seem to be a new contributor to HN, so, welcome!
It's our policy and well-established convention here that we use the same title as the original article, with the only exception being if the original title is misleading or baity, in which case we'll try and lift an appropriate phrase from the article (including the URL, or a subtitle, or a photo caption).
A title that editorializes or makes a meta-commentary about the article is against that policy.
It's nothing personal! We make these changes to titles every day, and over the years we've found it serves our purposes very well.
We know it's an imperfect solution but it's the least-worst solution. We'd lose far more than we'd gain if we banned all paywalled content, as it's such a huge share of the total body of content (esp. when weighted by masthead prominence and traffic) on the web. But it's also a policy that it doesn't belong on HN if there's no easy way around the paywall. We don't want to list anything that's not freely accessible for everyone, reasonably easily.
Not an affiliate, nor a fan of nytimes.. Not sure why the title was changed and the context removed from the submission. I was highlighting an interesting ux where the review of the poem appears in context to the verses. And I could skip login in my private window in brave.
You seem to be a new contributor to HN, so, welcome!
It's our policy and well-established convention here that we use the same title as the original article, with the only exception being if the original title is misleading or baity, in which case we'll try and lift an appropriate phrase from the article (including the URL, or a subtitle, or a photo caption).
A title that editorializes or makes a meta-commentary about the article is against that policy.
It's nothing personal! We make these changes to titles every day, and over the years we've found it serves our purposes very well.
also, you can leave a comment on your own post highlighting what you found interesting about the link
Thanks..my bad for not going through the rules on titles..
We know it's an imperfect solution but it's the least-worst solution. We'd lose far more than we'd gain if we banned all paywalled content, as it's such a huge share of the total body of content (esp. when weighted by masthead prominence and traffic) on the web. But it's also a policy that it doesn't belong on HN if there's no easy way around the paywall. We don't want to list anything that's not freely accessible for everyone, reasonably easily.
This is a long-settled HN practice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989