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Clearly they should only editorialize the ones that are wrong.
by wannacboatmovie 3y ago
Clearly they should only editorialize the ones that are wrong.
- lmm 3y agoThat doesn't help, HN mods still "correct" it back to the wrong title even in that case.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThat was sarcasm, as what's "wrong" is often subjective and up to interpretation.
- Dylan16807 3y agoAnd it's often not.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThen it gets flagged and removed. The end.
- Dylan16807 3y agoNo it doesn't. Good stories with bad titles almost always stay up.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoSo is it the mods who are editing titles of articles to be more sensational and clickbait-y? Because this happens all the damn time, flagging does nothing, etc.
- lmm 3y agoIn many cases yes. I don't know if it's an automated or manual process (it seems to happen less when the US is asleep, so I suspect it's manual?), but generally if you submit a link with a title edited to be less sensational and clickbait-y it gets changed to the linked article title.