You can make some very small changes to titles. Thus, if you had used

    Vulnerability in {windows} ICMPv6 could allow Denial of Service (microsoft.com) 15 points by vog 7 hours ago | 11 comments

You'd have stuck with the original title, and provided the needed extra information.

I agree that it's a problem when the original title is lousy. Or when the original title is both lousy and longer than 80 chars.

> Result: I have never entered that crappy title, but receive the complaints!

It's frustrating that so many people made those comments - it's pretty obvious that an article from MS is going to be talking about how MS does stuff. If it helps I don't think the complaints are about you, but about MS. Because, you know, there are some companies which provoke that kind of reaction.

I agree that sometimes titles are changed to things that make no sense. That seems to be the rule, and it's consistently applied. That means that people do make comments about the title. This seems to work against PG's desire to avoid the "middlebrow dismissal".

As an aside: I'd love a plugin that helped with the text box. Something that highlighted 80 chars.