cyrusshepard

Your comment seems to assume that 1) employment levels for software engineers is the same in India 2) that the OP has overstated the social stigma of layoffs in India, and finally 3) the current employment landscape that you find yourself in will last indefinitely.

Based on this, I suspect it's highly likely the hubris in this comment will not age well.

My guess is because it was self-submitted, it was held to a higher standard. Fair enough.

And in some universes the title could be considered click bait, although it is accurate in this case.

Moderation is a tough job. You never win.

That said, the revised HN title seems like it was written by bad AI. The point seemed to be to drive it off the homepage. In that, the HN title succeeded.

Regardless, I'm happy the article generated a lot of interesting discussion before manually being deemed unfit.

It is curious how at the same time the title changed, all the top comments (which were generally supportive) got pushed to the bottom. And now, including yours. Assuming this article touched a nerve at the same time someone was having a bad day.

Author here. Frustrating situation. As the title is long at 84 characters, we know that Google is definitely going to rewrite it. The simplest way is to break it into parts and get rid of the shortest part that still makes sense.

So maybe take

'Towards Platform Democracy: Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure'

And 1) condense it and 2) lose the colon

'Platform Democracy is Policymaking Beyond CEOs & Partisanship' (60 characters)

If that is too condensed, you could try a a short title in the <title> and a longer title in the copy.

So an interesting distinction here is required! When Google says they use the title 80% of the time, they mean they use the title 80% of the time to create their search result title, which they may or may not modify. The other 20% of the time they use an H1 or other elements on the page.