[junon]

Why was the title edited here on HN? The original title is much better, and had more information. A bit ironic given the subject matter.

Dang, was this your doing? If so, can we please have an open discussion on this? It's happened a few times and it's annoying and seemingly randomly enforced. The guidelines state not to editorialize headers but this rule gets ignored a lot. What was deficient about the original title?

[cyrusshepard]

My guess is because it was self-submitted, it was held to a higher standard. Fair enough.

And in some universes the title could be considered click bait, although it is accurate in this case.

Moderation is a tough job. You never win.

That said, the revised HN title seems like it was written by bad AI. The point seemed to be to drive it off the homepage. In that, the HN title succeeded.

Regardless, I'm happy the article generated a lot of interesting discussion before manually being deemed unfit.

It is curious how at the same time the title changed, all the top comments (which were generally supportive) got pushed to the bottom. And now, including yours. Assuming this article touched a nerve at the same time someone was having a bad day.