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Is it really a big deal? I feel that the spirit of this site is more about the targeted content and useful comments, than the cleverness of the submission title.

I could are less if any of my submissions were edited, especially if the editing made them more likely to be read.

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I don't think it's such a big deal, and maybe I'm the only one, but I don't like it if people have every reason to believe I wrote something that I didn't write. For example, the title of my most recent submission now contains the term "reproductive output", and I hate that term because it somehow seems to associate people with factories. (This is not to say the term is incorrect, and anyway it's taken from the story header.) But such things are very subjective.

Oh, so YOU'RE the insensitive prick that thinks people are factories?

LOL, I think you're putting too much thought into it. As long as the titles are derived from the story and the headline fairly accurately, nobody is likely to judge you for a mis-applied opinion. Hell, nobody is likely to remember you for any given average story in the first place.

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