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Afghanistan Silk Road jewel reveals more of its treasures

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I for one am thankful that I can once again click on a "Silk Road" news item and learn some more fascinating history!

thought it was about the currently busted Silk Road not the real one.

Not about the busted tor service like I thought it would be but interesting nonetheless.

Indeed. A very(unintentionally) misleading title. Perhaps unfortunately, the policy here is to keep the original title of an article... That policy has many upsides, but one of its biggest downsides is that there is no discretion allowed in fixing possibly confusing titles like this one.

I think a notice -- like "Silk Road (the real asian route) jewel reveals more of its treasures" -- would suffice here.

pg said recently that the reason they revert titles is to avoid false information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

A tiny change like this does not seem to include false information -- on the contrary, it unambiguously and imparcially clarifies it.

I agree with pg, but I'd add the option to place a subtitle or heading by the poster.

This has been provided as a nice solution multiple times. I thought the consensus was that this would be a good idea. It also ensures the post is not seen as sensation headline trolling and gets downvoted or something. The last discussion in this regard also happened after the submission of a "Silk Road Asia" article with a beautiful site from CNN or BBC (?) I'm searching but can't find it yet.

Is this a hack/protest on HN's title changing policy?

If so, it's a clever one.

I was fooled myself, and so thought it would be a fun experiment for you guys/ladies to partake in.

However, it does seem that someone has now changed the title to avoid confusion (would have thought it would happen much earlier).

FWIW the title was changed after my comment above.

There's yet another silk road, in the recruiting space, http://www.silkroad.com/

Sorry, didn't intend to suggest otherwise.

I bet these guys are loving the extra attention.

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