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Thanks, we've updated the title from “NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content” to that of the article with a more mechanical shortening.

The actual title is too long for the HN submission. But I agree that the editorializing is poor; a better title would have been: NY Times tracks Reddit conversations around their articles using a Slack bot

There's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about:

To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

At that point, what's the point of the Yoda sentence split-and-reorder?

How about: {We/NYTimes} Built a Slack Bot to Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles

I'm not privy to the technical reasoning, but the Yoda split-and-reorder is part of their brand identity, so to speak.

It's an in-joke in journalism that the NYT routinely starts headlines with prepositions (followed by "location/context, noun/subject verb noun...")

My take would be "In the NYT Slack, a Bot to Track Reddit Conversations".

https://twitter.com/NYTPrepositions