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Why omit "Uber" from the title on HN?

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As much as I enjoy piling on Uber, this seems to have nothing to do with them, and is just there for clickbait.

HN policy has always been to leave the title intact.

And I, for one, find his affiliation with Uber to be of particular interest given Susan Fowler's story.

Not true. It is permitted to neutralize a clickbait title if the story is otherwise worthy.

Without looking at Crunchbase, please name one other investment of Shervin Pishevar that has the cultural reach of Uber. I suspect a randomly selected person would not be able to do so. And Uber has a well documented history of hostile or discriminatory behavior that hews close to the article's topic.

I, like most people, didn't even recognize the name Shervin Pishevar. Of course I do recognize Uber, so putting Uber in the title when the story is not about Uber is clickbait.

Keeping or removing Uber is a complex decision:

He's a little bit more than merely an Uber investor. Quoting: "He is a strategic advisor to Uber, and served as a board advisor to the company from 2011–2015." [1]

He also invested in many more companies than merely Uber. [1]

Therefore a case can be made for both keeping Uber as well as removing Uber from the title.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shervin_Pishevar

One other data point, the HN link originally had "Uber" in it but then it was subsequently omitted in an edit. Why the edit?

Did you read article? The first 4 paragraphs are about Pishevar's behavior toward an Uber employee. And at least one incident occurred at an Uber event (2014 holiday party). To say that this story has "nothing to do with [Uber]" is inaccurate or, worse, willfully blind.

Yes, he allegedly harassed an Uber employee, but he didn't work for Uber, the alleged harassment took place outside of the office, there is no allegation that he used his position as an investor in Uber to take any adverse action against the woman, and nothing in the article indicates that the harassment was ever reported to Uber, so there is nothing here that would indicate that Uber is at fault.

Meanwhile, the woman who was allegedly harassed refused to comment for the article, so with regards to that particular allegation it is just gossip.

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