HACKER Q&A
📣 bookofjoe

Should all submissions involving mice state that fact in the HN title?


I say yes, if only to eliminate the predictable "in mice" comments


  👤 add-sub-mul-div Accepted Answer ✓
I could do without the incessant hall monitoring in every thread explaining why the title is clickbait or the article isn't substantive enough or that it was published last year.

I'm an adult, I can decide what I think about a submission. We're smart people who need to understand that it's on each of us to have the skills to figure out cancer wasn't just cured in humans overnight, we don't need the nuance of every article explained to us.


👤 delichon
So should this title

  Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim 
be changed to

  Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim (in mice)

?

👤 dvh
Maybe titles should be just reverse domain names ala Usenet:

    health.cancer.cure.mice
    energy.solar.breakthrough.25%
    space.mars.water.found

👤 Hamuko
I understand all of the words in the post and yet I comprehend nothing about it.

👤 bediger4000
Yes, 100% agreement, for that reason.

Along the same lines, security vulnerability links should have "Windows" or "Linux" or "iOS" or whatever, for the same reason.


👤 codingdave
No, just follow the guidelines to use the original title, and downvote the "in mice" comments as they are shallow comments that don't add value.

👤 verdverm
There is limited space in the title and the primary guideline is to use the same title from the other side of the link

👤 cheaprentalyeti
"No, Pinky, this will complicate my plans for tomorrow night."

👤 pndy
Are you ok?