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Hey, who changed the title? I submitted this as "Austrian" Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile-leap? What happened, HN?
by mittermayr 14y ago
Hey, who changed the title? I submitted this as "Austrian" Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile-leap? What happened, HN?
- fourstar 14y agoKarma police.
- mittermayr 14y agoarggh, Americans you say ;)
- 10dpd 14y agoArrest this man. He talks in maths. He buzzes like a fridge. He's like a detuned radio.
- 10dpd 14y agoWhy the downvotes for a reference to one of the greatest songs of all time ( Karma Police by Radiohead ) ?
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- ars 14y agoYou've been here for a year - you should know better. Your message is just noise, and has nothing to do with the topic.
- kahawe 14y agoThis is not reddit.
- tripzilch 14y agoExactly, here on HN we don't need those new-fangled "collapsible comments" like Reddit has. We prefer to treat our threaded comments like mere oddly layouted linear threads and allow no digressions! "Load more comments" and "comment score below threshold" ... we have the technology ...
- kahawe 14y agoLet's focus on the real scourge first... "Link expired".
- random42 14y agoHN Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Avoid unnecessary editing of the article's original title.
- mittermayr 14y agothanks for posting this. i felt it was necessary. but i can see where you come from.
- hnriot 14y agoBut adding Austrian added additional information. I'm sick of these arrogant hn title editors that think they know best.
- Steko 14y agoConsider that if a dozen people submit this story with the correct title but their submissions count as upvotes / duplicates to this first submission then the algorithm may automatically correct the title to the most common submission which is likely the actual article.