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Again with the title-changing. "Tillery to Represent Hays Against UC Berkeley in Dispute over Lab Fees" does not tell me: - who Tillery is - who Hays is - why

Again with the title-changing. "Tillery to Represent Hays Against UC Berkeley in Dispute over Lab Fees" does not tell me: - who Tillery is - who Hays is - why I should care about a dispute over lab fees. The original title made it clear what the issue is: the scientist in question alleges that his lab is being shut down due to his criticism of a herbicide made by Syngenta, who coincidentally give money to the university. Please, stop secretly editing the titles.

zzzeek 13y ago
FTR the original title is from this Michael Pollan tweet: https://twitter.com/michaelpollan/status/368771855064133634 https://twitter.com/michaelpollan/status/368771855064133634 "Tyrone Hayes, embattled scientist critical of Atrazine and Syngenta, loses his lab funding at Berkeley" I had shortened it to "Scientist critical of Atrazine and Syngenta loses his lab funding at Berkeley". Though I pretty much expected the HN title change.
- tzs 13y ago
  I wonder if your title (which is orders of magnitude better than the title it was changed to) would have survived if you had submitted the tweet itself, instead of dereferencing to submit the original article?
  - zzzeek 13y ago
    apparently HN headlines have an 80 char limit.
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