"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it. I think this qualifies as gratuitous edit

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it. I think this qualifies as gratuitous editorial spin. Perhaps not if you changed it to "may", though it's still borderline.