Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles

Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by readme on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:03PM (#5142951)

I find their changing of titles to be accurate, usually. It's nice that they change linkbait titles to accurate ones.

Nothing is worse than when someone posts a story then twists the title to fit their own interpretation of it.

Thank you oh wise and objective admins.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by salemh on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:32PM (#5143070)

It is a bit annoying re-read or click the same comments on what seems a different or tangential story, get confused, and realize it was a title change.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by mindcrime on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:40PM (#5143096)

It's nice that they change linkbait titles to accurate ones.

Yes, and if that's all that happened, I doubt most people would complain. The problem is when more accurate / descriptive titles get changed to ones that are less representative of what the linked content is actually about. And yes, this absolutely does happen.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by cube13 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:08AM (#5143573)

From what I've seen, it's usually the opposite. A fairly neutral, descriptive title is changed to the linkbait article title.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by beefsack on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:26PM (#5143042)

I'm actually quite happy to see this too, I never have a problem with titles here like I do over at Reddit.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by gnosis on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:31PM (#5143065)

I have a feeling neither of you have had the titles to your own submissions changed.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by readme on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @10:25PM (#5143268)

"Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?"

One of my submission titles was changed to the above.

I cried for days after.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by mikeleeorg on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:16AM (#5143598)

Out of curiosity, what title did you originally submit? I noticed your submission was this URL, and the changed title matches the submission's actual title.

http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machin...

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by readme on Thursday January 31, 2013 @10:26PM (#5149031)

I reworded it to something like "Can a 32 bit machine use more than 4GB of ram"

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