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by travisfischer
4595 days ago
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I think it would be helpful if HN allowed an optional inclusion of author name along with title which could be displayed next to the title. The author of an article is more often than not the only additional context needed to make a link title interesting or relevant. You could simply append "by Paul Graham" after the actual title of Paul's posts. I know HN doesn't want us to continue to discuss this issue in threads that are not directly related to talking about HN's title policy. However, there will be literally no stopping this discussion from popping up again and again because it is an actual problem for readers of the site and it will take every new reader of the site being told why things are broken in this way before they stop asking about it in unrelated threads. I find it interesting that Paul continues to hold to his position that it's an acceptable problem to have when there is a constant stream of readers signaling it is a real problem with the site. This post is one very clear example of exactly why it's a real problem. I can see at least two ways to address it without spending more money on moderators. 1. Allow volunteer moderation and trust those moderators like Stack Overflow does. This is a solution that has been proved workable time and time again. 2. Give users a way to add some additional context to posts. Author name being included in the title is the bare minimum needed but I can think of a few other helpful pieces of contextual information as well. |
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This would be useful.