I would argue that is a lesser problem than nobody who is interested in PHP clicking through to the HN discussion because they don't have any indication that th

I would argue that is a lesser problem than nobody who is interested in PHP clicking through to the HN discussion because they don't have any indication that the post is about something they are interested in. Anyway, re-titling horribly editorialized posts is fine. The problem is that the person/people doing it seem to exercise little to no discretion when doing it.