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Comment by coderobe | Hacker News Reader

To whoever edited my title: The bug report title is inaccurate. It's specifically about HSTS preloads, which is why my original title stated that instead of "gTLDs".

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If you changed a misleading title to make it accurate, then you were following the HN guidelines and we made a mistake in overwriting it. Sorry! We try hard but inevitably get it wrong sometimes. We've put your title back.

Regardless of the title editing discussion in the sibling comments, the title at the source was changed to "Omnibox hostname heuristics misunderstand internal redirects.", which accurately reflects the problem.

The title as it appears on Hacker News isn't supposed to be "useful". It is supposed to be the same as the source page. Idiotic, I know.

Maybe it would be better if submissions included a short summary? so for links to external news articles that summary could be the actual tittle.

If this is the case they should remove the title field and automate fetching <title>. Why let us write a cleaner summary and then just delete it?

That's not what I understood of reading the posting guidelines [0] and especially "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

If OP thought it was misleading, then he was right to adjust it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Indeed the "title" of the original page is misleading (because the original bug submitter thought it was one issue, but was really another).

And that has had the effect that most of the conversation in this thread is about gTLDs instead of HSTS redirects, when the bug has nothing to do with the former (as noted by the comments where they specifically say that this does not happen to other gTLDs)

Quite right.

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