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This is bad editorializing. You're putting words in the author's mouth that cannot even be found on that page.

Don't do that.

Edit: Thanks to the mods or whoever fixed it.

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If anyone is confused what the "bad editorializing" is ...

Actual title of article: Local Async Executors and Why They Should be the Default

The title posted to HN: Async rust – are we doing it all wrong?

The title has been fixed now. But yeah it is annoying to see badly editorialized titles. It is against the guidelines -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

I wonder if HN should have a rule that prohibits editorializing.

Not sure if this is facetious, but HN does have a rule that prohibits editorializing. From the Guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

No, I was genuinely asking because I had found many HN posts were editorialized.

Maybe HN should auto-pull title from URL, and then add the posters title as a form of "subtitle/comment"

This assumes those titles are usable, which they often are not.

Populating the field automatically might nudge people toward doing the right thing, though.

Half-joke: HN scrapes first few text lines in HTML (in case the very first one isn't the title) and one of them has to be used as the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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