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What's the HN policy on editing titles? Is there always a note in the comments to say that the title was edited? I'm probably missing something, but it seems li
by ramshorns 10y ago
What's the HN policy on editing titles? Is there always a note in the comments to say that the title was edited? I'm probably missing something, but it seems like the HN admins' ability to edit titles is susceptible to the same kinds of problems as the Reddit admins' ability to edit comments.
- dang 10y agoWe usually post something to that effect, but not always. For one thing, not all the moderators are public. For another, posting that we made a punctuation change, or some such, is tedious. But the important point is that on HN, titles do not belong to the submitter—they're shared—so submitters don't have any special rights over them. On the contrary, the site guidelines specifically ask them not to change an article's title unless it is misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Comments are very different, and we don't edit them without saying so, unless a user asks us to. (Though a few times I've broken down and corrected an obvious typo.)