I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.

I wouldn't mind so much if it were accountable. There's no mechanism to challenge a title change. Between that and the arbitrary banning of sites, I usually think twice about submitting good things.

Or to hovertext with "Submitted title: 'blah blah blah'"

I agree. I am the original poster and I expanded the title to make it more clear. But looks like the mods don't see it that way.

Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.

I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.

AFAIK all of the mods are YC insiders, so they'd know Marz by name.

If it is as you imply, that's a pretty serious Theory of Mind failure on their part.

Agreed, and more importantly, thank you for introducing me to the term "theory of mind." It seems a nice way to succinctly refer to the notion of understanding the perspective and level of familiarity of others.