Re:WW.com Sold in Private
by jacquesm on Thursday June 26, 2014 @02:03PM
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I totally agree with the sentiment here, applying that even-handedly is going to be hard though. Plenty of articles about frequent HN contributors had the HN handle in the title, and in the future you're going to have to decide between 'original titles only' and this 'emphasize content, not personalities' policy.
But those were not on 'your watch' so I'm 100% on board with your new policy.
Quite a few blog posts carry the name of the blogger in the domain as well, which emphasizes personality rather than content, that's going to be harder to get rid of.
Anyway, I didn't even expect this to be on HN at all, it's been a roller coaster month of negotiations and traveling, I'm happy it's done. Now to repair the website, amazing how many dependencies on a domain name creep in over the years!
Two samples:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4328367
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214397
But those were not on 'your watch' so I'm 100% on board with your new policy.
Quite a few blog posts carry the name of the blogger in the domain as well, which emphasizes personality rather than content, that's going to be harder to get rid of.
Anyway, I didn't even expect this to be on HN at all, it's been a roller coaster month of negotiations and traveling, I'm happy it's done. Now to repair the website, amazing how many dependencies on a domain name creep in over the years!