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OP's headline saves you a click, versus the original title: "We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art"

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Saving a click is probably an anti-goal of HN article titles.

in this case, I say it's OK

I honestly prefer a headline that tells me a bit of the main point over one that doesn't.

Saves more than a click because it requires you to sign in to read the article.

This isn't paywalled Medium content so you can simply find the close button and click it, be it on the sliding banner or the modal.

That being said, that action does require an extra click.

It requires sign-in for me.

> To keep reading this story, create a free account.

There is an 'X' on the modal window.

Yeah, if you saved that click you also got the wrong idea. I even proposed a better official title. Makes me wonder if you read my comment at all.

I know editorializing is against the rules but I love the current title, "WikiHow's bizarre art is created by an army of freelancers in the Philippines", it sounds so quaint and absurd.

You can love what you love. I prefer a factual title.

I don't see how the current title isn't factual

I guess <em> isn’t doing its job, so let me temporarily break the guidelines:

“GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines” != “an army of freelancers in the Philippines”.

Those are functionally equivalent imo. The NYPD operates in other cities and countries. I wouldn't expect people to preface a description of them by saying they were a global police force based primarily in the Phillipines

I don't think so.

> GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines

Would mean: freelancers from all over the world, but most of them in the Philippines.

While

> an army of freelancers in the Philippines

Would mean: freelancers from the Philippines, and only in the Philippines.

At least that's my view as a non-native speaker, so maybe worth about 2 cents.

Let me save you a click, & the authors future banal efforts: utilitarian work is a global effort of freelancers. Some just have different obligations as part of their freelance work than others.

Shock. Awe.

The adjusted title is factual. 2+2=4 is factual. A title is not, because whoever created it had a purpose in mind (I'm being generous.)

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