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“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

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688 points hunglee2 | 3 comments | 08 Feb 23 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.965s | source
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bee_rider ◴[08 Feb 23 19:26 UTC] No.34713438[source]▶
Why was a question make added to the submission here? It makes it look like a (incorrectly written) question about a thing that happened, rather than… whatever it is, speculation I guess.
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1. dang ◴[08 Feb 23 19:52 UTC] No.34713883[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713747
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2. bee_rider ◴[08 Feb 23 19:59 UTC] No.34713987[source]▶
Odd, haven’t seen titles like this before. It seems like a weird policy, to change headlines in a manner that is misleading if parsed following normal English grammar rules. And especially to only apply that rule in controversial cases.

If the goal is to make it clear that the claim is not endorsed by HN, why not something like

AuthorName: “This is clearly a quote because it is in quotation marks”

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3. dang ◴[08 Feb 23 20:59 UTC] No.34715040[source]▶
We do quotation marks sometimes too, and that's actually maybe a good idea here, so I'll add them. Thanks!