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Poor editorialized title.

"Editorialized" implied deceit was intended. It looks to me like the submitter was trying to be descriptive.

The very first item in the feature list is

> Easy to use, with a game inspired menu system.



Which has no relation to the word gamified. So the editorialized title is misleading.

Editorialized here simply means applying editor-level changes to the title of the website to express an opinion. No deceit is implied. It is against HN guidelines unless the title is unclear or does not fit.


right? that is not gamification. there's no reward system to make one want progression, or addiction.

that said a enjoy looking at code for projects that are multi os so cheers for op.


Editorialized simply means expressing an opinion (as in an editorial). The word has no connotation implying deceit.


That isn't what gamified means, and one should not be using such a term without knowing what it means. When in doubt, stick to simpler descriptions. Hence calling it poorly editorialized.


Hence calling it poorly editorialized.

"Poorly described" would be correct. "Editorialized" does not mean what you think it means. See my previous comment.


To me, gamelike user interface would be simply editorialized, while gamified user interface would be poorly editoralized. One is editoralized with an opinion, the other also has an error. It isn't a fact that it's gamelike over all, nor is it how it's described in the README - the author says "with a game inspired menu system" which is a far cry from game-esque, game-like, game-ified, etc.


Merriam-Webster defines editorialized as "to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts"

It was the submitter's opinion that "gamified" was an accurate description for this page instead of using the actual title of the page.

So while "editorialized" is a little formal, it is correct.

Reporting on controversial issues is often editorialized, which may be where your feeling that it relates to deceit is coming from.


While I can't tell exactly what the author is thinking, the opinion that I see is that it feels a lot like a video game. The author said "game inspired menu system" which is a far cry from game-like user interface, which would be a corrected version of gamified user interface.

That does seem obviously like an opinion, however there are some things that don't seem like an opinion that can still be considered an opinion.

This fits a whole class of headlines, which are described as editorialized, some of which seem more opinionated than this and some which seem less opinionated. I'm not sure whether it's better wrangle the use of opinion and the definition of opinion to make these satisfy the dictionary definition of editorialized or accept that the use of language has evolved and it's better not to be overly prescriptive.


The opinion is that the title should be something different than the author wrote for the page.

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That would be a fact in this case, because "Btop - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes" is too long for a HN submission

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No one was, nor was implied to be, deceptive. They described it in their own words and the word they chose is clearly inaccurate or misused.

That's all.

They could have described it as "game-like design" or something else.


taking inspiration from a game doesn’t mean “gamified”.


Just like editing a title doesn't mean "editorialized".




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