Yeah, my main problem with the current policy is that it lowers the overall quality of content by encouraging content from places that are optimizing their titl

Yeah, my main problem with the current policy is that it lowers the overall quality of content by encouraging content from places that are optimizing their titles. Some places even write titles deliberately targeted at HN. Stuff not intended to "go viral" or be marketed, but rather just to provide useful information in a non-HN context, often ends up with completely unintelligible, out-of-context titles, like "Update". But that material is often actually better. I guess I could try to adopt a personal policy of only reading submissions that have vague, out-of-context titles, and see if it works as a kind of reverse heuristic.