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True, this is true, and technically against the rules. Post Title and Article Title must agree. The poster must be popular or someone affiliated with the mods,
by Simulacra 11y ago
True, this is true, and technically against the rules. Post Title and Article Title must agree. The poster must be popular or someone affiliated with the mods, else they would've had their posting rights revoked by now.
- dang 11y ago> Post Title and Article Title must agree No, the rule is "Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkabit." That "unless" is critical. I wish we had some linguistic superglue to keep the two clauses stuck together—they always fall apart in shipping and the first bit is the only one people remember. > The poster must be popular or someone affiliated with the mods, else they would've had their posting rights revoked by now. Don't assume omniscience! We miss things. Also, we don't revoke posting rights because of titles unless people break the rules a lot.
- justhw 11y agoI'm not popular nor affiliated with HN. I was actually linked to the article from PG's tweet https://twitter.com/paulg/status/651289253742161920 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/651289253742161920. The actual post's title was click-baity and the tweet title too long to submit to HN, so I truncated it.