[tptacek]

Nobody on HN has a right to "not have something they posted replaced with something else". Dan said it today, and Paul Graham has said it in the past: you don't own submissions to HN. It's for the same reason that posts can't simultaneously be "Ask HN" and a link to a site --- the submitter of a link doesn't get a special privileged comment to go with it.

The slot you fill when you submit a new story to HN is community property. If you're worried about the outlandishly weird case of having your name attached to something that a mod decided was better than your submission when it actually wasn't, submit with a throwaway account.

None of this is news. The site has always worked this way. What's galling is the reason people are bickering about it now: because the moderator is making an effort to be more transparent about it.

[gravedave]

Why do you have to "own" your submissions for them to be left as-is in the first place? Is the only way to go around here with a stick? Just because they reserve the right to change them doesn't mean it should be done at their own leisure, like "fuck OP, here's what the post should REALLY contain".