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Comment by byoogle | Hacker News Reader

There’s an install button for both Chrome and Opera at the top of the page. Wtf?

Sure, but the story you submitted was "Show HN: Adblock Fast – An iOS 9 ad blocker", and there isn't an iOS ad blocker, only an email signup and a demo image. Unless I'm missing something, that's a plain violation of the most important rule.

Users email us to complain when they see posts that break this, because "Show HN" is an implicit contract that they'll be able to try a piece of software out. (The standards are looser for non-software projects.)

Understood, but the title got edited a couple times – could you edit back to something more neutral? (E.g., at one point the title was plain, old “Show HN: Adblock Fast”.)

There are three things at the top of page that are brand new and people can try out (plus we sent almost 100 copies of the iOS app so far to people who signed up this morning):

* https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nneejgmhfoecfeoffa...

* https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblock-fast/

* https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

Ok, we've put the title back to "Show HN: Adblock Fast" and restored the post.

The logs turned out to be more complicated than I thought. You submitted "Show HN: A preview of our iOS 9 ad blocker". That did break the rules—a "preview" can't be a Show HN when the "preview" is an email signup and an image. A moderator changed that to "Adblock Fast", and then a moderator changed it to "Show HN: Adblock Fast – An iOS 9 ad blocker".

Since you do have new things for people to try out, though, it seems like making the title more general is the best solution.

Cool, ty!

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