Re:Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.
by aston on Saturday August 18, 2007 @06:23PM
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Well, I've personally had titles edited, all for stylistic issues (none for bias, innaccuracy, or anything I'd deem worth editing). I don't really care, but I would prefer that unless my submissions were clearly in need of correction that they were not changed. They do show up under "submissions" clicking from my profile, so I think they ought to reflect what I submitted unless it harms the site.
I don't see how a user owns a title to content they didn't produce. If they produced it, the editors won't change it.
You get karma for bringing quality content to other people's attention, not for calling the content something it isn't.