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0 pointsDoreenMichele8y ago0 comments

Dan Gackle, moderator of HN:

For the most part, we keep author names out of HN titles. It's a trick I learned from PG for keeping the focus on the content.

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Name recognition seems to encourage reflexive upvoting, which is one reason we often take names out of titles.

We've removed "Alan Kay" from this one. (Nothing personal—we're fans.)

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But mostly we take the author's/presenter's name out of titles, in keeping with HN's emphasis on content over personalities.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20names%20titles&sort=byP...

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csallen8y ago

I don't have any qualms around taking names out of titles.

DoreenMicheleOP8y ago

And yet here we are discussing an article with Sam Altman's name in the title, as is rather often the case on the topic of UBI, and you essentially arguing that this is a good thing.

csallen8y ago

I suspect we'd be discussing this article even if Sam Altman's name wasn't in the title.

EDIT: Also, I wouldn't say that it's necessarily a good thing that we're discussing this. Moreso, my point is that the value of a piece of writing isn't completely disconnected from who wrote it, nor should it be.

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0 pointsDoreenMichele8y ago0 comments

Dan Gackle, moderator of HN:

For the most part, we keep author names out of HN titles. It's a trick I learned from PG for keeping the focus on the content.

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Name recognition seems to encourage reflexive upvoting, which is one reason we often take names out of titles.

We've removed "Alan Kay" from this one. (Nothing personal—we're fans.)

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But mostly we take the author's/presenter's name out of titles, in keeping with HN's emphasis on content over personalities.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20names%20titles&sort=byP...

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csallen8y ago

I don't have any qualms around taking names out of titles.

DoreenMicheleOP8y ago

And yet here we are discussing an article with Sam Altman's name in the title, as is rather often the case on the topic of UBI, and you essentially arguing that this is a good thing.

csallen8y ago

I suspect we'd be discussing this article even if Sam Altman's name wasn't in the title.

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