And as a practical matter, I believe the title change led directly to downvotes for my cornbread recipe and perhaps the recipes that other people posted last ni

And as a practical matter, I believe the title change led directly to downvotes for my cornbread recipe and perhaps the recipes that other people posted last night. Mine was at +4 last night, now down to +2. I try not to worry much about downvotes, but I do use them as a signal to help me understand what kinds of comments are appreciated or not. I often read the HN threads before looking at the original article, and I can easily imagine reading these comments after the title change and thinking, "Why are these people talking about cornbread recipes? What does this have to do with page loads or Iceweasel? Downvote!" In this case, though, "cornbread" was right there in the title when we started sharing our recipes last night, and the original article talks about baking cornbread and links to a recipe. So the recipes weren't entirely irrelevant at the time we posted them - and the initial upvotes seemed to confirm that - but the title change sure makes them look off-topic.