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malshe wrote: post #4

The actual title of the article: Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency Please stop editorializing news titles to fit your agenda.

Im simply stating a fact and then providing a source that supports my statement. Please let me know where's the error?

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Post by bell-cot » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 2:42 PM UTC

UncleBen wrote: post #5

malshe wrote: post #4

The actual title of the article: Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency Please stop editorializing news titles to fit your agenda.

Im simply stating a fact and then providing a source that supports my statement. Please let me know where's the error?

The local (HN) standard is to use the article's actual headline, unless {conditions not met here}.

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 2:44 PM UTC

UncleBen wrote: post #5

malshe wrote: post #4

The actual title of the article: Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency Please stop editorializing news titles to fit your agenda.

Im simply stating a fact and then providing a source that supports my statement. Please let me know where's the error?

> where's the error?

“…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize” [1].

Happy to unflag once fixed. (EDIT: unflagged.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by UncleBen » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 2:50 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #7

UncleBen wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im simply stating a fact and then providing a source that supports my statement. Please let me know where's the error?

> where's the error? “…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize” [1]. Happy to unflag once fixed. (EDIT: unflagged.) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks for the correction apologies, been updated to follow (EDIT: Counter to what was previously said this has ended up permanently flagged and as a result successfully killed...)

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Post by UncleBen » Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 2:50 PM UTC

bell-cot wrote: post #6

UncleBen wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im simply stating a fact and then providing a source that supports my statement. Please let me know where's the error?

The local (HN) standard is to use the article's actual headline, unless {conditions not met here}.

Thanks