I am very disappointed at the editing. I understand if the user includes profanity or hate speech but nitpicking? It just seems like censorship when it doesn't need to be.
Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.
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#32I think the art would be to stop people joining the site when it reaches an acceptable level of coolness.
Isn't this how Metafilter survives and maintains its excellent quality?
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#34It's the final straw that we fix typos and abusive punctuation in submission titles? That seems a bit melodramatic.
I'm surprised to think anyone didn't already realize we did this. Did you really think people on news.yc had that much better spelling than reddit users?
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#35It's the final straw that we fix typos and abusive punctuation in submission titles? That seems a bit melodramatic. I'm surprised to think anyone didn't already realize we did this. Did you really think people on news.yc had that much better spelling than reddit users?
"Did you really think people on news.yc had that much better spelling than reddit users?"
Sure, shatter the illusion why don't ya?
Kidding aside, I don't know why people are flipping out. One should think the editors are carefully chosen to not be power-hungry jackasses out to destroy a story's integrity. It's not even like they're editing comments. Some people are quick to jump on the drama, I suppose. I share in the same sentiment expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650
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#36It's the final straw that we fix typos and abusive punctuation in submission titles? That seems a bit melodramatic. I'm surprised to think anyone didn't already realize we did this. Did you really think people on news.yc had that much better spelling than reddit users?
As opposed to caring about the specifics like fixing punctuation, I think that critics don't like the authority (and potential for abuse) implied by administrators messing with user submitted text, no matter in how trivial a way.
At some point users have to decide if they're willing to sacrifice a purely democratic community if it means an increase in quality. Is the point of a social news site to make a political statement, or is it find cool stuff to read?
Edit: Maybe the admins should just be 100% transparent about everything they do; document their actions in a FAQ.
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#37It somehow felt a lot better IMO when it was "Startup News"
True. I'm going to miss all those startup submissions. I think he might have ruined the site this time, but we'll see.
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#39I know this isn't the right place to ask this, but why is there no down arrow for submissions/comments? And why when you upmod something does the arrow disappear! Where's the undo?
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#40It's the final straw that we fix typos and abusive punctuation in submission titles? That seems a bit melodramatic. I'm surprised to think anyone didn't already realize we did this. Did you really think people on news.yc had that much better spelling than reddit users?
As opposed to caring about the specifics like fixing punctuation, I think that critics don't like the authority (and potential for abuse) implied by administrators messing with user submitted text, no matter in how trivial a way. At some point users have to decide if they're willing to sacrifice a purely democratic community if it means an increase in quality. Is the point of a social news site to make a political st…
Transparency makes this a non-issue. Admin actions like editing titles should automatically show up on a log page.