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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by gnosis on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @08:40PM (#5142870)
The thing is that the attention a submission gets is almost completely determined by the title.

A crappy title will ruin the chances of most people even bothering to look at the comments.

So I don't think this is a workable idea. Just leave the submitted title as is, and let the HN readers vote it up if they think it's worth it.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by niggler on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:08PM (#5142976)
I wonder whether a simple post-downvote would be more effective than the existing flagging mechanism
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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by absconditus on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @10:17PM (#5143242)
This is not reddit. Stop worrying about such things.
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