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Since 2016. Two years after Rubin was allowed to retire. Still reassuring I think, but not a great headline.

Yeah the headline is super misleading. Implies it's recent and all at once, like they'd be ignoring sexual harassment and decided to finally crack down.

But the article itself paints the opposite picture.

Yep, definitely click-bait to make it seem like a sweep that just happened. Recommending the following headline instead: "Google has fired 48 employees since 2016 due to sexual harassment".

Thanks. We've added that bit above.

Can you guys add a misleading title flag which prepends the title with something like [Misleading title] so that users know it does not fully summarize the content of the article? Another article [0] got flagged unjustly in my opinion (unflagged a day later due to my edit I think) because the content was still interesting despite the misleading title.

Some type of title vote mechanism with user input sounds even better but I don't know if you guys have the manpower to implement something like that.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284077

I don't think we'd write software to do that (how would it recognize misleading titles?), and when intervening manually we can simply edit the title to not be misleading. That's what the site guidelines ask submitters to do, and what moderators do when we become aware of the problem.

When users have flagged an otherwise good article because of a bad title, we often turn off flags once the title has been fixed.

If you notice a misleading title that hasn't been edited, you can always let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.

Yes, but by the time you turn off flags for the article in cases like this, it is already to late because your time based de-ranking algorithm has delisted it off the front pages. That's why a flag that simple prepends the title without delisting it would be good.

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