Community feedback is a pretty rigorous trainer. That's actually how we learned to do things this way. If it didn't, title complaints (either about edited titles or unedited ones) would be far more dominant here than they are. I'm sorry that didn't happen in the case of this title and your complaint-but it usually does work out.

One thing that also goes unremarked on is that when we see people complaining about titles, we nearly always change the title until the complaints stop.

Obviously the way we do it isn't perfect and there are going to be false positives no matter what we do-but I'm not aware of any other approach that would lead to significantly greater front page quality. Edit them differently? if so, how exactly? Edit titles such that no one is ever annoyed by an edit? impossible. For example: leave titles unedited? that would be catastrophic. From my point of view, meaningful discussion would have to be about what general rules or practices could improve HN's quality as a whole. That's not a valid generalization because it leaves out all the cases which actually improve things-those go unnoticed and unremarked on. People always comment on HN title edits based on the cases that they noticed and disliked. I think it's better because Superman is more specific than American Pop Culture.

The interesting side effect of that is, these heroes will often live in deeply flawed societies with rampant crime and/or inegalities, villains will usually have a back story justifying their anger but extreme means to solve it, and the heroes will still be there to stop that villain but neatly keep that rotten status quo. It can be explicited or the series might just never progress towards its end goal, but that’s a basic necessity for a superhero series to have any longevity. In the end, the only path for overpowered heroes keep a series going on is for them to keep the status quo eternally. I saw the same take in other contexts, and it made a lot of sense.īasically, heroes having superpowers is the core of the issue: they are by definition above everyone else, and are in a position to topple the world order to push their objectives.Īssuming they want to make the world a better place, they’d probably succeed in being a kind of messia, and if they can reach their goal the story ends and the franchise is done (alternatively new heroes are born within the same franchise, but it’s another line)Īssuming they want to fix the world in a way that is problematic, or are straight evil from the start, they’ll fit in the villains slot.

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