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What's wrong with it being a hit piece?

Are we supposed to stop caring about acceleration problems because Toyota had one?

Should journalists have decided not to write about this at all?



It doesn't belong on HN!! Note the article and the HN headline are not the same!


If it's of intellectual interest, it belongs here.

A tech company failing to deliver for some reason is of interest. Tesla stopping deliveries is as interesting as cloudflare dropping traffic or aws down time.


The title was just changed, so now it can stay. The submitted title with many upvotes was "Tesla Cybertruck Production Halted Due to Unintended Acceleration

Editorializing a title is frowned upon for a good reason!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


The "editorialized" title was factual, unemotional, and more specific than the article's title. It's fine to say it violated guidelines, but it didn't transform this post into a hit piece.

Other publications used an almost-identical title: https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-hit-with-stop-sale-bec...


You said the article doesn't belong on HN, I'd say it clearly does. The title has been fixed.




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