On: What is going on with the editing of submission titles?

[staunch]

I think it'd be nice if there were some simple page displaying what instructions the admins are operating under. They're white knights not gestapo, right? :-)

[palish → staunch]

Why's it matter? They have our interests in mind. This works because we're small and Paul's visible.

I'm sure there are no specific 'instructions'. They're trying to keep the site nice because it's a reflection of YCombinator.

[staunch → palish]

Doesn't need to be very formal. Just a little friendly transparency to avoid theses kinds of threads being repeated frequently.