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Ah, I didn't realise I was supposed to rewrite headlines under certain conditions. I understood the rule to be "use the headline as written, even if you can think of a better summary." I'll try that next time.



Thanks! The rule is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's sort of a subrule, which is below the detail line that makes sense to include in the guidelines, but which is a good practice: when changing a misleading or linkbait title, try to use representative, neutral language from the article itself. You can usually find that somewhere, whether in a subtitle, the HTML doc title, a photo caption, the first paragraph, or even a 'thesis statement', as high school English teachers used to call them, buried somewhere in the middle of the piece. That way the article still gets to speak for itself; more so, in fact, because media headlines are usually written by someone other than the author. It's almost never necessary to make up language to replace a baity title with. I did so in this case, but that's rare.




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