[pentagrama]

A more honest title to me:

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees from 1% to 1.5% on US

Current title:

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%

[epgui]

The current title is fine. It’s a 50% increase (unambiguously), or a 0.5 percentage point increase (also unambiguously).

[sitzkrieg]

lets run away from math if it sounds bad!

[Gasp0de]

Ok so if something previously was free and now costs 1c per transaction, you would think "Stripe increasing price infinitely" would be a good title? Just because it is true that doesn't make it a good title. A good title should create a realistic expectation of the article content.

[Yujf]

No that would not be good. I agree that you should choose the correct way to represent something.

But here a 50% increase creates a realistic expectation to me.

[epgui]

Congratulations, you’ve identified a misleading statement that has nothing to do with the present situation.

[pytness]

Using percentages as means of manipulating the masses has always been a thing.

"There has been a 1000% increase in traffic deaths this year, we must do something!"

Ah yes, we went from 1 death per year to 11 because there was a fatal bus accident, surely we need to do something.

[epgui]

What you say is true, but does not really apply here.

[wglb]

The title should be what the article says. We are not to editorialize or rewrite titles.

> June 2024 pricing update for Instant Payouts for businesses in the United States

[0wez]

exactly. so tired of people saying: huehuehue this is correct, its just 50% comon bro the only reason i clicked is because i was like: wtf you need to pay 50% fee of the 100%?

i dont care about anyone trying to say: huehehue thats how its written. no its not.

but yeh i guess ppl rather focus on shitposts and talk endlessly

[0wez]

and even on a hacker site its just a shame for ppl actually defending this title. its #1 phishing/SE method to trick people