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Re:What is going on with the editing of submission titles? by dpapathanasiou on Friday August 17, 2007 @03:27PM (#43582)
Neither scenario describes my original titles.

Perhaps it was just over-zealous editing, but budu3 makes an excellent point about attribution.

I post here under my real name, and I'm always careful to think through what I post.

If I get the sense that what I type here is going to be changed arbitrarily by 3rd parties, that is going to end my participation.

I understand you're trying to prevent what happened to slashdot and reddit, but there is such a thing as going too far in the other direction.

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Re:What is going on with the editing of submission titles? by palish on Friday August 17, 2007 @03:41PM (#43590)
One fix might be to implement something like Facepunch Studio's forum system. You're auto-banned for a day if you don't capitalize your thread titles and banned by moderators if you shout in ALL CAPS or misspell words.

Here's their ban list: http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showbans.php?

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Re:What is going on with the editing of submission titles? by vikram on Friday August 17, 2007 @07:17PM (#43662)
But that's solving a problem we don't have yet? I think this particular uproar is the liveliest discussion we've had on news.yc and even this isn't terribly exciting.
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