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Giant 'river monster' fish found in Detroit River may be over 100 years old
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/sturgeon-fish-intl-scli/in...
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Nothing; that's what the title should be. The guidelines ask you to use the original title, and not try to summarize the article yourself in the submission title.
HN has guidelines , not rules , and there are times when they can be bent. For titles, finding (or manufacturing) one that's clearer based on actual article text is a common alternative. I've suggested "Chinese paddlefish has gone extinct due to overfishing and dams" to the moderators. (Much of that phrase occurs within the article.)
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HN has guidelines , not rules , and there are times when they can be bent. For titles, finding (or manufacturing) one that's clearer based on actual article text is a common alternative. I've suggested "Chinese paddlefish has gone extinct due to overfishing and dams" to the moderators. (Much of that phrase occurs within the article.)
I don't think we disagree. The important point is that it's not the job (or the privilege) of the submitter to determine for everyone else what the most important angle on the story is. Titles are community property. That's exactly what went wrong here.
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There are no organizations in China that oppose the government openly. At least not for long. The Chinese government has roving vans that execute dissidents and harvest their organs right outside their house. The CCP cares about the environment insofar as it benefits China. They probably do not care about a fish going extinct the way we do.
That sounds highly suspect: "The Chinese government has roving vans that execute dissidents and harvest their organs right outside their house."
PRC does not deny they exist, nor denies that organs are harvested after. There are pictures of them online, and notable cases where it was the officially recorded method of execution.
I recall visiting the Yangtze river by boat tour around 1997. This was before the dam was built and the place was beautiful. Imagine the grand canyon but it was covered with lush vegetation. We visited a center where there were models of the three gorges dam would soon to be built. On the tour they said we would be the last tourists to see the Yangtze as it stands, after the dam, many landmarks/settlements would be f…
[1]https://www.amazon.com/River-Town-Years-Yangtze-P-S/dp/00608...
> Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct What does this mean?
......nope still doesn't make sense.
What was wrong with the better original title "The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct"
editorializing the title is addressed in the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Submitters: please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...