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The world's fastest human is Canadian (cbc.ca)
2 points by aroberge on May 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Flagged for misleading title. The title makes it sound like he's a runner, which would certainly be surprising.

Better title would be:

"Canadian man breaks record for fastest man-powered vehicle" or something.


While I agree that the title can be misleading, it is the original title of the article which I thought one was required to use.


The guidelines say to change the title if it's clickbait:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


In these cases, usually the recommendation is to use the subtitle. "Saskatchewan native Todd Reichert rides the fastest vehicle powered by muscle"




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