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Can people putting up stories please consider those of us that use the site's RSS feed? All you get for this one is

    <item>
    <title>You&#39;re calling *who* a cult leader?</title>
    <link>http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/</link>
    <comments>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064</comments>
    <description>
    <![CDATA[<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064">Comments</a>]]>
    </description>
    </item>
which makes it a bit hard to judge whether to read it or not. Improving the title would be good. Especially since any explanatory text given at the same time as the title doesn't make it through to RSS.

I'd like to think if it's worth posting to news.yc, taking up the time of all those that consider reading it, it's worth putting some effort into a good title. If it isn't, perhaps it's not worth posting?



On the other hand, title 'improvement' carries the risk of editorializing or missing out on important points. Using the author's original title at least ensures that you're in line with the author's intent. This is a pretty complex article which touches on a lot of different points regarding pg and public figures in general, and I don't know if a few words would adequately describe it.


That's actually a pretty damn good title, I reckon. It grabs attention and, hey, you're here, aren't you?


It's a crap title. A title shouldn't just grab attention; that's easy. I'm here today on this thread, but I haven't been on many others with similarly poor RSS appearance.




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