[justsomehnguy]

> This is the key case I wish HN allowed editorializing the title

The ability to leave a short (less than 100? 140?) description would be one the ways which would allows not to clickba^W editorialize the titles.

Or the submission author can do the same by leaving the comment about it in the first comment.

[throwaway1777]

Leaving description opens up other bad avenues though. Like posting an article with a description about how stupid the article or the author is.

[zamadatix]

The more general take I have seen is that it would give a "priority comment". That can result in problems like that but also more commonly just cause the comments to all act like a response to the "main" comment rather than general discourse on the topic. I can definitely see that though I also see the poster having a large amount of that control already in most cases since they get to pick the source they post.

[airstrike]

> Like posting an article with a description about how stupid the article or the author is.

The community can moderate that, though