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by dang 3418 days ago
We changed the url from https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38901498, which points to this.

The submitted title ("US Army approves Dakota Access Pipeline without required environmental review") rewrote the original when it wasn't misleading or linkbait. This breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), so please don't do that.

Doing it to emphasize a contentious detail in the story is editorializing, which is particularly bad. On HN, unlike some other social news sites, submitters have no special rights over the story and don't get to frame it for everyone else. If you'd like to say what you think is important about a story you've submitted, please do so by commenting in the thread. Then you're on a level field with everyone else.

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Understood, and that makes a lot of sense. I apologize for the mistake and will do better next time.
Great!