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Perhaps because that title completely omits any form of attribution, which as the article suggests, is largely because of the Gezhouba Dam which completely cut paddlefish off from their only spawning grounds.

Why would you want to omit that part?

That said, this title is a poor attempt at communication.

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Well now you have a title that's, to me, incomprehensible

It's not just you - the new title makes no sense at all to me either. It reads as a jumbled collection of random words :/

"The paddlefish has been dammed to extinction"

You’re hired

There's nothing wrong with:

  The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct *because of Yangtze dam*

The problem is this part:

  Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct

Grammar, largest, from original, now incomprehensible

HN’s hyperbole filter definitely takes out “world’s” on the first pass, but you can put it back.

Example: I touched off a bit of a “seems bait-y” pas de deux/do-si-do with the bot/mods re a BBC headline a while back. It’s towards the bottom (where it surely belongs) of this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26552375

I'm sorry, this shit cracks me up so much. I'm glad that everyone got so much out of the title!

I thought the guide was to use the original title

> Perhaps because that title completely omits any form of attribution

Though even there, it's... not great, as most people will probably read Yangtze dam as the Three Gorges Dam.

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