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Why was the title I used changed on this post? It was originally "Sprint Corp. has started preliminary talks to merge with T-Mobile US Inc.," which is literally
by rayuela 9y ago
Why was the title I used changed on this post? It was originally "Sprint Corp. has started preliminary talks to merge with T-Mobile US Inc.," which is literally the first sentence of the article....
- mockindignant 9y agoBecause that is not the title of the article.
- maccard 9y agoFrom the guidelines [0] > please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 9y agoWhen a title is misleading, the first sentence is often an excellent choice. But in this case it (i.e. the shortened version of it you used) was more misleading: it states a rumor as if it were a fact, where the original title includes "said".
- rayuela 9y agoThanks, I appreciate the response.