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The title of this story is "Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends" and has absolutely nothing to do with the throw-away line that the submitter us
by geuis 15y ago
The title of this story is "Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends" and has absolutely nothing to do with the throw-away line that the submitter used.
Do not editorialize submissions on HN. This is not Digg.
- dctoedt 15y agoOP here; I quoted the relevant part in the first comment.
- geuis 15y agoFrom the guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."