My personal opinion is that it's better to change and write it from an "outside perspective". They're writing the title for what makes sense in context: hosted on their blog, so it's obvious who...
My personal opinion is that it's better to change and write it from an "outside perspective". They're writing the title for what makes sense in context: hosted on their blog, so it's obvious who "we" refers to. Tildes is a different context, and it's not obvious here.
The general guideline I try to follow when writing titles is to think about it like I'm bookmarking the link and want to be able to find it again in the future and/or remember what the link is about, based on the title alone. So if I wanted to be able to find that post about Sourcehut's monitoring, it would definitely need to have "Sourcehut" in the title.
I really don't understand why so many seem to care what the "original" title of a piece of content is. The whole point of having a separate title field on tildes is that you can use it to make the...
I really don't understand why so many seem to care what the "original" title of a piece of content is.
The whole point of having a separate title field on tildes is that you can use it to make the best title possible for that piece of content.
Editorializing isn't a word that means to change a title from whatever someone else chose it to be somewhere else, it's inserting an opinion in the title in addition to a description/report of what the content is.
Many titles of blogs, commentary pieces, videos and the like are editorialized by the content creator themselves. By not changing the title away from an editorialized one, the submitter has submitted an editorialized link.
Tildes is the best it can be when the submission titles are substantial and descriptive so you have the best possible information to determine whether or not the piece of content is worth clicking on or not. Whatever maximizes that, do those things to your titles.
My personal opinion is that it's better to change and write it from an "outside perspective". They're writing the title for what makes sense in context: hosted on their blog, so it's obvious who "we" refers to. Tildes is a different context, and it's not obvious here.
The general guideline I try to follow when writing titles is to think about it like I'm bookmarking the link and want to be able to find it again in the future and/or remember what the link is about, based on the title alone. So if I wanted to be able to find that post about Sourcehut's monitoring, it would definitely need to have "Sourcehut" in the title.
I really don't understand why so many seem to care what the "original" title of a piece of content is.
The whole point of having a separate title field on tildes is that you can use it to make the best title possible for that piece of content.
Editorializing isn't a word that means to change a title from whatever someone else chose it to be somewhere else, it's inserting an opinion in the title in addition to a description/report of what the content is.
Many titles of blogs, commentary pieces, videos and the like are editorialized by the content creator themselves. By not changing the title away from an editorialized one, the submitter has submitted an editorialized link.
Tildes is the best it can be when the submission titles are substantial and descriptive so you have the best possible information to determine whether or not the piece of content is worth clicking on or not. Whatever maximizes that, do those things to your titles.
That seems useful to me. It requires more effort to look at the domain name to put it together yourself. I wouldn't consider that editorializing.
One possible downside is that it makes it tougher to tell what might be "inside" vs "outside" reporting.
Might make more sense instead to change it to
I wonder if it shouldn't be in brackets like [sic] to indicate it's additional context added by someone else?
making content more clear in a title is better, I don't see the downside
Monkeypants thinks things could get a little weird for Monkeypants if pronouns were banned from titles.