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The title is almost always changed if the post's title is different from the submission's title. There usually isn't a good reason to editorialize the title when submitting to HN, unless the title is something like a "Show HN."

For anyone seeing this comment after the title has been changed, OP's title was "Windows Phone's IE starts masquerading as mobile Safari to render pages properly"




> For anyone seeing this comment after the title has been changed, OP's title was "Windows Phone's IE starts masquerading as mobile Safari to render pages properly"

editorializing or not, i prefer the less vague title. serves as a great tldr;


But it's opinionated. That's the issue - it attempts to colour your opinion on the topic before you've even read the article.


The HN guidelines clearly state to use the original title, though.


if the policy is so strict, why not just automate the title extraction?

why give users a title choice and then have mods (who essentially hand-review all submissions) just revert it like robots?




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