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What's the criteria for changing HN post titles? The earlier posting was 'A marriage proposal hidden across two playstation games' or something like that. Is
by muragekibicho 11mo ago
What's the criteria for changing HN post titles?
The earlier posting was 'A marriage proposal hidden across two playstation games' or something like that.
Is there a HN bot doing this or is it the mods?
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoIt's the hard suffering mods.
- dang 11mo agoYes, we changed it in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." In this case, though, "Under the microscope: NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)" didn't seem right, so I used language from the opening paragraph instead. That's one valid place to look, when scouring a page for representative language suitable as a title. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20representative%20opening&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...