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Not about the busted tor service like I thought it would be but interesting nonetheless.

Indeed. A very(unintentionally) misleading title. Perhaps unfortunately, the policy here is to keep the original title of an article... That policy has many upsides, but one of its biggest downsides is that there is no discretion allowed in fixing possibly confusing titles like this one.

I think a notice -- like "Silk Road (the real asian route) jewel reveals more of its treasures" -- would suffice here.

pg said recently that the reason they revert titles is to avoid false information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

A tiny change like this does not seem to include false information -- on the contrary, it unambiguously and imparcially clarifies it.

I agree with pg, but I'd add the option to place a subtitle or heading by the poster.

This has been provided as a nice solution multiple times. I thought the consensus was that this would be a good idea. It also ensures the post is not seen as sensation headline trolling and gets downvoted or something. The last discussion in this regard also happened after the submission of a "Silk Road Asia" article with a beautiful site from CNN or BBC (?) I'm searching but can't find it yet.

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