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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 3 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Tenoke ◴[12 Jul 18 16:05 UTC] No.17515920[source]▶
I got to say, HN has become much looser with the titles since dang took over. It could be for the better (or not), but I definitely see at least 5 top posts a week with an editorialized title now, compared to a lot less before.

Edit: Everyone is saying it is fine. Again I'm not saying it is not, but if it is, can you please update this part of the guidelines:

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

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apendleton ◴[12 Jul 18 16:07 UTC] No.17515940[source]▶
It's a direct quote from the email. Do you think it was taken out of context in a way that communicates editorial intent? Seems pretty directly connected to the contents of the message to me.
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1. code_duck ◴[12 Jul 18 16:12 UTC] No.17515983[source]▶
It’s journalistic, but is not misleading. “[python-committers] Transfer of power - Guido van Rossum” would be more verbatim, but I think the title is okay.
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2. Tenoke ◴[12 Jul 18 16:18 UTC] No.17516041[source]▶
Sigh I'm not saying it's not okay in this case, I'm saying that I believe this would've been disallowed before because we didn't want it to be up to people's judgement whether it is okay or not.
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3. code_duck ◴[12 Jul 18 18:35 UTC] No.17517359[source]▶
It’s not an article, and doesn’t have a title, so I don’t know what I’d suggest, personally. We have no idea if the title came from the submitter or a moderator, also.