The Hacker News welcome message http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html gives an overview of the community experiment

The Hacker News welcome message http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html gives an overview of the community experiment here, summarizing the site guidelines. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html One of the guidelines is to prefer submitting original article titles: "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The Hacker News FAQ http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html gives some additional details about how Hacker News is administered. The welcome message distills the basic rules into a simple statement: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."