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Here's an algorithm you can use to predict that for all submissions. If the link here has the post's original title, we won't. If it doesn't, we'll replace it with the original title.

I know of a counterexample from this week. The original submitter (I) posted an article I learned about from a local scientist with the original title

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813270

and then during the subsequent discussion the HN title of the thread was changed to something that I don't think is a fair summary of the submitted article. (I don't know which curator did that, or which users flagged the thread, but I saw it happen after it was too late to edit the original submission.)

The original article is here and you can see its title:

http://independentsciencenews.org/news/23andme-disproves-its...

After edit: In view of the blanket policy statement to which I am responding, I'm especially curious about the recent exception I linked to.

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