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Again, this guideline is not a hard and fast rule. Those moderation comments you link to are for the very common case of posters adding their own strong opinion
by modeless 3y ago
Again, this guideline is not a hard and fast rule. Those moderation comments you link to are for the very common case of posters adding their own strong opinions to article titles. The title I chose had no opinion and was merely a factual description of the article content. I'm afraid I won't be able to find dang's explanation of why it's sometimes OK to use different titles because it's drowned in the sea of moderation comments for egregious clickbait and highly opinionated submission titles.
- pvg 3y agoNo, editorializing is adding your opinion about what's important. You don't get to do that in a title, you can do that in a comment. That's exactly what those comments say. This particular thing is a pretty settled practice. Notice how the title was fixed. Because it was a bad title.
- modeless 3y agoI changed it myself. Once the story is out of the "new" queue, having a snappy title is less important. I still did not use the exact article title as I think the content is better represented this way.
- pvg 3y agoAdding 'snappy titles' to boost your submissions is exactly what the guideline asks you not to do. I'm not sure how it can be more straightforward or less prone to your misinterpretation.
- shadowgovt 3y ago"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate... Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pvg 3y agoThis is neither about the appropriateness of the submission nor are any of the comments egregious.