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rinze | 1 year ago

The title should be changed to "In response to Google?" to keep up to date with the latest practices around here.

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awfulsystems|1 year ago

you’re right? I’m pretty sure I remember a moderator ruling about this?

rinze|1 year ago

You mean this is the way to write comments now? I might join, sounds like a good idea?

davidgerard|1 year ago

dang? was clear about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135403

dang editorialised the previous headline into a Betteridge Law question - "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no" - when it in fact is not such a thing, and strongly makes its case.

But we checked directly with Ian Betteridge on Mastodon (in a local post) and he said "I love Ed's pieces so he gets a thumbs up from me." FWIW.