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Do we really need the reddit headline editorialization on HN?

When you're working with NASA, and they officially help you with the encryption, you're not "seizing" anything. This is a very cool and interesting story without the L33T HAXX0R DUD3Z angle being weirdly inserted into it...the McMoon team are heroes many times over and awesome in their own right.

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It's the EXACT headline from the article! Maybe HN should penalize people for complaining about the titles of submissions, because it seems like no matter how someone titles their submission, someone is going to have a problem with it. Complaining about "headline editorialization" doesn't do anything to fix the problem.

Downvote and move on. We don't need to have this stupid conversation every time.

The HN guidelines call for using the original title except when it is misleading or linkbait. trackofalljades is right that this one was linkbait, so we changed it to a phrase from the first sentence.

You're also right—complaints about titles are tedious. It astonishes me how much time and energy they take up.

There is a way to complain about titles productively, though: suggest a better one.

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