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Perhaps title changes that alter the sentiment should trigger a new post to be made. Because this post clearly rose to the front page on a negative sentiment. Then the title was changed to a positive sentiment while keeping all the upvote and comment stats. And now all the comments are out of context with the new title.

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In such cases we sometimes post a comment explaining what the submitted title was and pointing out that some of the comments make more sense in the context of the earlier title. In this case, we don't need to do that because there's a top subthread complaining about the title change in the first place.

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