On: Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker

You have the answer here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617317

"[...] The big no-no is extracting some interesting fact from inside the article and using it as the title"

Thanks - makes sense from a ‘they’re following the rules perspective’, but less so from a ‘enable discovery and subsequent interesting discussion’ perspective.

I wonder whether a subtitle giving an editorialised “so what” would help... but that would of course mean twice as much to moderate, and twice as much for people to complain about...

Interesting, I had forgotten about this rule. Doesn't that encourage blogspam links instead of the source with context?

Ironically, that's exactly what dang often does, including today.

Often? That doesn't seem true to me. Can you give examples?