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Is it a glitch of my memory or has the headline been edited? I thought the policy on HN was to use original headlines.
by oytis 2y ago
Is it a glitch of my memory or has the headline been edited? I thought the policy on HN was to use original headlines.
- dang 2y agoNot a glitch! We edited it. But you're slightly mistaken about about the policy. It is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Note that "unless". The second clause is as important as the first! "The erasure of Luigi Mangione" is a linkbait headline because it drastically inflates the scope of the article. Therefore we changed it, in accordance with the guidelines, using a representative phrase from the article body.