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0 pointstgv2y ago0 comments

The reading process is automatic. It's quite likely that capitalized "Teams" is read by may as the product name. And it's reasonable, because in most daily contexts, "teams" refers to actual "teams" and "Teams" refers to the product. Nobody (including you) is going to teach them to stop doing that. Adapting a rather dumb capitalization rule is a lot easier.

I do agree that editors should read their topics critically and add disambiguating text (if possible and permitted).

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codetrotter2y ago

Teams is a very generic product name. Microsoft can live with the consequences of that.

When I read the headline, I was not thinking of MS Teams. Because I only use MS Teams a few rare times a year. Mainly I use Zoom.

But even if OpenAI had an article that with the rules of headline capitalization of HN ended up reading “Dall-E adds Zoom Feature” I would have imagined that it was about being able to zoom into pictures. Not automatically assumed that it had anything to do with Zoom. Even though I use Zoom almost every day.

gbalduzzi2y ago

> Teams is a very generic product name. Microsoft can live with the consequences of that.

Quite the contrary, Microsoft earns free advertisement from this. The problem is for the people that misunderstand the heading, not for Microsoft

Ok, you would understand it correctly even the Zoom example. So?

Heading should be optimized for the most possible amount of people, there is a clear possibility that a lot of people misunderstand the title, so why not simply edit it? In that case neither you nor anyone else would understand something wrong

F7F7F72y ago

The vast majority of people aren’t going to make the association. Even in the HN demo.

I think people are vastly over estimating Microsoft’s ownership over ‘Teams’. Even within a tech context.

Plus, everything we’ve seen from Microsoft in their partnership with OpenAI has been Co-Pilot. Which is why I use MS Teams daily and did not make the connection.

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