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Whatever happened to HN's rule about clickbait headlines?

• Bootvis 12y ago
  The headline covers the content quite well in my opinion. There should be no rule against a descriptive headline.
• k-mcgrady 12y ago
  AFAIK the rule is to use the title given in the article and not create your own click bait headline. IF the mods determine the articles title is click bait they can change it.
  • dang 12y ago
    The rule says "unless it is misleading or linkbait", so in the case of linkbait it's not only legit to change the title, it's requested. We've attempted to replace the title of this article with a more neutral one. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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