| I get that, and you're right that using language from the article itself is far better than making up something of your own. Still, the guidelines ask you not to rewrite titles unless they're misleading or linkbait. Cherry-picking a detail from an article and making that the title is editorializing—in fact it's the leading form of editorializing. Titles are by far the most powerful influence on HN threads. The one who controls the title controls the discussion, and on HN we want that control to go not to the submitter, but to the article itself—except when it's abusing it by being misleading or linkbait. In that case, changing the title is necessary, and then it's best to find the most representative language in the article (which might be a subtitle, the URL, the HTML doc title, a photo caption, or a factual sentence from the main text) and make that the title instead. On HN, submitting an article confers no extra right to frame the article for everyone else. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's great, but please do so via a comment in the thread. That way your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's. I've posted a lot about this in the past if you or anyone wants further explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... |