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I find their changing of titles to be accurate, usually. It's nice that they change linkbait titles to accurate ones.

Nothing is worse than when someone posts a story then twists the title to fit their own interpretation of it.

Thank you oh wise and objective admins.



It's nice that they change linkbait titles to accurate ones.

Yes, and if that's all that happened, I doubt most people would complain. The problem is when more accurate / descriptive titles get changed to ones that are less representative of what the linked content is actually about. And yes, this absolutely does happen.


From what I've seen, it's usually the opposite. A fairly neutral, descriptive title is changed to the linkbait article title.


It is a bit annoying re-read or click the same comments on what seems a different or tangential story, get confused, and realize it was a title change.


I'm actually quite happy to see this too, I never have a problem with titles here like I do over at Reddit.


I have a feeling neither of you have had the titles to your own submissions changed.


"Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?"

One of my submission titles was changed to the above.

I cried for days after.


Out of curiosity, what title did you originally submit? I noticed your submission was this URL, and the changed title matches the submission's actual title.

http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machin...


I reworded it to something like "Can a 32 bit machine use more than 4GB of ram"




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