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Re:Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, decl... by gadf on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:18PM (#27350114)
That's weird... I think the original title of the article was wordier than mine, so i cut out words to fit the limit. But now when i check the article it has a shorter one. I could be wrong tho, but I'm pretty sure that's what i remember seeing....
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Re:Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, decl... by rolph on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:11PM (#27363159)
one of my own personal habits is to include the full non truncated title in a comment if the title is too long, this would also demonstrate the title at time of submission, so this would also make it evident that the title has been changed by the site operator.

something that was pointed out too me earlier was the two different titles associated with a page, are both acceptable to title a submission.

re:[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26638804]

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Re:Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, decl... by gadf on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:25AM (#27364835)
that's a great idea. never thought of that, thanks!
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Re:Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, decl... by dang on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @04:26PM (#27360824)
Oh - it's not uncommon for articles at big media sites to change their headlines. I don't remember seeing that at NatGeo before though. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
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