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Title change, please? Boing Boing and especially Doctorow have a serious hyperbole problem, but even their original title didn't put Doctorow's words in John De
by PhasmaFelis 10y ago
Title change, please? Boing Boing and especially Doctorow have a serious hyperbole problem, but even their original title didn't put Doctorow's words in John Deere's mouth. The quote marks are completely false.
- Pyxl101 10y agoI flagged the article for this reason.
- mintplant 10y agoYou're being downvoted, but flagging (and/or emailing hn@ycombinator.com) is the moderator-sanctioned method of drawing their attention to a post.
- reitanqild 10y agoDidn't downvote but still disagree a lot. Flagging off otherwise interesting articles is seriously annoying IMO. I'd say commenting or upvote if there is already a comment (and maybe emailing if necessary) is the solution.
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- dang 10y agoTrue, but the site guidelines also say "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Pyxl101 10y agoSorry. I commented to explain the reason for the flag. I wasn't sure it was obvious.
- dang 10y agoSorry for the late reply, but a moderator changed the title when we saw this earlier. The submitted title was "“Only corporations can own property, humans can only license it” – John Deere", which was egregiously editorialized and the sort of guidelines violation that will get an account penalized here (so please don't do it). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html