HN Title Complaints

Users criticize Hacker News submission titles as clickbait or misleading, often comparing them to original article titles and suggesting more accurate, neutral alternatives.

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Sample Comments

xori Aug 19, 2016 View on HN

This title should be changed to a less "click bait" one.

danvoell Jul 15, 2016 View on HN

How Titles Evolved: It Wasn't for Giving Away the Actual Information in the Article

dang Jul 25, 2016 View on HN

Anybody want to take a shot at a less baity, accurate, neutral title? Preferably using representative language from the article.

itsdrewmiller Sep 30, 2022 View on HN

Can you change the title too to something that doesn't seem like they are trying to mislead people? The real title is "Here’s how one of Atlassian’s critical services consistently gets above 99.9999% of availability"

kinofcain May 12, 2016 View on HN

Ok, the original title was accurate and describes what's in the article.

version_five Apr 15, 2023 View on HN

That's not the article title

SkyMarshal May 29, 2017 View on HN

Wold be nice to have a submission title that actually says what the article is about.

gabemart Oct 9, 2012 View on HN

Couldn't you have gone with a less link-baity title?

zaphar Sep 29, 2015 View on HN

The actual title is "Adblockers: The only way out" which communicates a very different intent than the current title for this submission.

wcr3 Jun 18, 2017 View on HN

stop titling articles like this...