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Is there some policy on HN that the title of the submission always matches the title of the thing that is linked to? I'm sure I've seen situations where it does

• Spare_account 10y ago
  The verbatim title is preferred: "... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
    Though it's more like the verbatim title is preferred except when it isn't and there's a good chance an editor will change it to the verbatim title, or something worse, or maybe better and an equally good chance people will complain and it'll be changed [back]. I've always said we should have the verbatim title and an editorialised one and let people choose in config which one[s] they want. Current system mostly works though.