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#2Just look at the faces of these two men. Make your own judgement about their mental state.
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#3FY HN is pretty strict about article titles.
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#5FY HN is pretty strict about article titles.
It's not clear to me if what I wrote is wrong. How should I re-write it?
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#6Maybe this new title is what is needed.
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#7Just look at the faces of these two men. Make your own judgement about their mental state.
Please don't editorialize titles. The guidelines are very clear about this:
... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Also, mainstream politics news is off topic on HN. We make exceptions when it's a major breaking event, i.e., something that can be reasonably characterized as an "interesting new phenomenon".
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#8FY HN is pretty strict about article titles.
It's not clear to me if what I wrote is wrong. How should I re-write it?
The HN title should match the original title of the article, unless the original title is misleading or linkbait.
We're specifically trying to avoid the Reddit-esque practice of writing a title to draw attention to something specific in the original article or make a claim about it. That's not fair to the authors/publishers of the original article, or to the audience.
If you want to draw attention to something in the article, you can do so in a comment in the HN thread.