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Can we un-click-bait this by replacing "she" with "Sabine Hossenfelder"? Yes, the article itself uses the title as used but there is no reason to not clarify who this is about.



The whole title is clickbaity, not just by lack of name, so I've replaced it with something boring and straightforward.

(This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)


Thanks!

The original submitted title (from NPR) was "She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity".

I'd pinged HN mods about this, though dang ended up dong a wholesale replacement rather than s/She/Sabine Hossenfelder/.


Thank you! Straightforward. Wish all titles were written like this.


Such an annoying trend of click-bait too, and it's all over news sites.

"Click here to know who this _woman_ is who did something so great"... As if being a woman, to the author and their target readers, supersedes in importance what the person actually achieved or had to say.




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