Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles

Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by Bootvis on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:11AM (#5143762)

I have two examples where I'm of the opinion my title was clearly better suited for HN.

Goodwill Hunting (http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.nl/2012/11/goodwill-hunti...) which I changed to something like "An investment bankers take on the Autonomy take over. This blog is well written and I've read every post on it but in most cases the subject of a post will only become clear when reading the post. Thus it is a bad title for use on a news aggregator.

GNU Typist (http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/) which I changed to "GNU Typist: Universal typing tutor" which is a variation on the first sentence of the page. My title clearly describes what one can expect, is not overly long or linkbaity.

Interested in the opinion of other HN'ers on my edits.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by edanm on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:46AM (#5143856)

I don't have an opinion on the general matter, but in these two cases I agree with you - the edited titles are better for HN.

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by charliepark on Thursday January 31, 2013 @07:48AM (#5144691)

I think your edits were both good. Were they changed by HN editors?

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Re:Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles by Bootvis on Thursday January 31, 2013 @08:11AM (#5144759)

Yes, and to add:

I willingly and knowingly broke the rules for the greater good. I expected that this would be better received here.

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