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This was a bad title that got fixed.

• pvg 3y ago
  Not by HNs long-standing rules of titlery, as I’ve explained and you can also see from the years of mod commentary linked above.
  • CyberDildonics 3y ago
    That would mean that any clickbait title that has detail added is somehow wrong and bad by your definition.
    • pvg 3y ago
      No because clickbait titles should be changed on submssion by a subtitle or other representative language from the article. That's also in the site guidelines and numerous moderation comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20representative%20language&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...