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But it does cover more than that and the current title is pretty close.

• gus_massa 5y ago
  The guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ask to use the original title unless it's linkbait or wrong.
  • rtkwe 5y ago
    I get it's there in the guidelines (notably not called rules) however when the title isn't informative I'd rather have the modified title personally.
  • sundarurfriend 5y ago
    But in practice, even dang(/team) themselves sometimes change the title away from the original, to be more indicative of the article content, even when it isn't exactly linkbait or wrong per se.