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editorializing the title is addressed in the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

• dang 5y ago
  Yes, that was bad. Submitted title was "Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct". That spawned a whole school of complaints and offtopicness in its own right. We've changed it now. Submitters: please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22level%20playing%20field%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
  • gadf 5y ago
    That's weird... I think the original title of the article was wordier than mine, so i cut out words to fit the limit. But now when i check the article it has a shorter one. I could be wrong tho, but I'm pretty sure that's what i remember seeing....
    • dang 5y ago
      Oh - it's not uncommon for articles at big media sites to change their headlines. I don't remember seeing that at NatGeo before though. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
    • rolph 5y ago
      one of my own personal habits is to include the full non truncated title in a comment if the title is too long, this would also demonstrate the title at time of submission, so this would also make it evident that the title has been changed by the site operator. something that was pointed out too me earlier was the two different titles associated with a page, are both acceptable to title a submission. re:[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26638804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26638804]
      • gadf 5y ago
        that's a great idea. never thought of that, thanks!