That's a fair point but in my experience in these situations the controversial bullet point would be pointed out by the top upvoted submission when you open the

That's a fair point but in my experience in these situations the controversial bullet point would be pointed out by the top upvoted submission when you open the comments so it's only one click away anyway. I hope that people on HN don't upvote/downvote stories based solely on their titles, and if I see an upvoted story whose title is "PopularSoftware v.6.2 is released!" I'm definitely going to check what the people have to say in the comments. I mean you've been here for quite a while judging by your profile, do you really find this to be a practical problem while browsing HN? Personally it's really a non-issue and the potential slippery slope of letting people come up with custom submission titles is not really worth it IMO.