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Re:Why we revert to original titles by jlgreco on Friday October 18, 2013 @04:11PM (#6573747)
To be clear, my issue is not the HN policy (as far as I understand it). I am 100% A-Okay with HN moderators reverting editorialized titles.

My issue is with the HN moderator[s] who are not using common sense while executing this policy. When an informative title gets changed to an information-free title, it is detrimental to the site. The point of using moderators to do this instead of auto-reverting all titles is so that the moderators can use some judgement. That is great, so long as they actually do that.

Re:Why we revert to original titles by tptacek on Friday October 18, 2013 @06:13PM (#6574343)
There is nobody doing this work for HN that doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, and then some. HN doesn't have a lot of moderators; it is intimately intertwined with YC the firm (something I've pointed out on HN before). Moderating it is a tricky problem.
Re:Why we revert to original titles by jlgreco on Friday October 18, 2013 @07:52PM (#6574688)
I certainly don't mean to imply that any of the moderators have malicious intentions.