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Does it matter? There's no punishment for having the title of your submission changed beyond wasted whatever effort you put into coming up with a new title. If

• jedberg 12y ago
  Then why do the site's guidelines specifically state "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."? I'm fine with the mods changing the titles, but I don't like the fact that the rules don't apply equally to everyone.
  • dang 12y ago
    The rules apply equally to everyone. The article's title is currently "50 Million New Reasons BuzzFeed Wants to Take Its Content Far Beyond Lists". That's obviously linkbait, so we didn't revert the submitter's title.
    • mbesto 12y ago
      > That's obviously linkbait This is a whole new meta that my brain is really having a hard time grokking.
      • dang 12y ago
        Sure, it's a meta ironic reference to Buzzfeed linkbait by the NYT, but the point stands. If I ironically mimic somebody screaming, I'm still screaming.
    • jedberg 12y ago
      The title wasn't link bait -- it was a journalistic choice by the New York Times author to mock BuzzFeed. Once again, I think you guys made the wrong choice. Once again, I'll point out that if you want to do heavy handed moderation, you need to spend more time understanding why something is the way it is, which means you'll need to spend more time doing it. Once again I'll point out that this is why we didn't do heavy handed moderation at reddit -- it's just too hard to get it right.