I think HN should implement the same restrictions as Reddit (Yes, I said it), nobody can change the title once the post has been submitted. This ensures consistency throughout the post's lifetime.
Submitters do occasionally badly editorialize titles so there is some need for editors to fix them, but of late there really has been an extremely overzealous HN editor or two at work.
Actually, at this point I'd agree - I'd rather have immutable submitter-editorialized titles than editors butchering half the submissions.
Submitters do occasionally badly editorialize titles so there is some need for editors to fix them, but of late there really has been an extremely overzealous HN editor or two at work.
Yep, exactly. I don't have a problem with editors fixing titles that are full of gratuitous spin or editorializing. But lately it seems that they're all but enforcing a policy of "every link must have the original page title and nothing else" and that's just silly.
> Submitters do occasionally badly editorialize titles so there is some need for editors to fix them
Someone should try making a website like this, except use the upvotes and downvotes of its users to determine which titles and articles are worthy of being shown.
