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The title is almost always changed if the post's title is different from the submission's title. There usually isn't a good reason to editorialize the title whe
by ihuman 12y ago
The title is almost always changed if the post's title is different from the submission's title. There usually isn't a good reason to editorialize the title when submitting to HN, unless the title is something like a "Show HN."
For anyone seeing this comment after the title has been changed, OP's title was "Windows Phone's IE starts masquerading as mobile Safari to render pages properly"
- leeoniya 12y ago> For anyone seeing this comment after the title has been changed, OP's title was "Windows Phone's IE starts masquerading as mobile Safari to render pages properly" editorializing or not, i prefer the less vague title. serves as a great tldr;
- ihuman 12y agoThe HN guidelines clearly state to use the original title, though.
- leeoniya 12y agoif the policy is so strict, why not just automate the title extraction? why give users a title choice and then have mods (who essentially hand-review all submissions) just revert it like robots?
- untog 12y agoBut it's opinionated. That's the issue - it attempts to colour your opinion on the topic before you've even read the article.
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