Just a note that Rule 1 in the sidebar says “if your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive”, so changing it is ok as long as it improves the information as the OP suggested. We’re luckily not constrained by the terrible titles chosen by news sites to boost clicks.
I assume as the volume of links grow, the amount of work mods would have to do in vetting editorialized headlines grow as well as some people would like to inject in their own bias. You’d see this obnoxious editorialization from time to time in .ml in the past on articles concerning USA, for example.
I’d just add the relevant info in angle brackets after the original headline, personally.
Then someone would complain that I changed the title, which is against the rules. There’s a picture of him, and the summary has his name.
Just a note that Rule 1 in the sidebar says “if your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive”, so changing it is ok as long as it improves the information as the OP suggested. We’re luckily not constrained by the terrible titles chosen by news sites to boost clicks.
They’re still running on Reddit rules
Which were terrible. My favorite was when a source capitalized the title, so anything you did would violate a rule and get it removed.
I assume as the volume of links grow, the amount of work mods would have to do in vetting editorialized headlines grow as well as some people would like to inject in their own bias. You’d see this obnoxious editorialization from time to time in .ml in the past on articles concerning USA, for example.
I’d just add the relevant info in angle brackets after the original headline, personally.
And then the actual title of the article will be changed 2 hrs later by the actual news agency.
This isn’t Reddit, we don’t have to post click-bait headlines verbatim.
I haven’t seen a lot of people get upset about altered titles on Lemmy. I feel like there’s a general understanding that an accurate title is better.
Some people cite the article’s original headline in the text below the submitted link.