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The verbatim title is preferred:

"... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html




Though it's more like the verbatim title is preferred except when it isn't and there's a good chance an editor will change it to the verbatim title, or something worse, or maybe better and an equally good chance people will complain and it'll be changed [back].

I've always said we should have the verbatim title and an editorialised one and let people choose in config which one[s] they want.

Current system mostly works though.




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