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No - it's clickbait.

And the new one isn't? At least the original was from the article, instead of editorialized by the poster/moderator.

> And the new one isn't?

No, the new one isn't motivated to get you to click the link, and therefore is not "clickbait". It is editorialized, but that's a good thing.

How can text be motivated?

It's still clickbait because it makes an unjustified, subjective judgement.

No, it's the HTML doc title, which makes it a legit original—indeed, it's what the HN bookmarklet selects by default. So adidash didn't editorialize anything. Also, no moderator touched this post.

HN has overeager mods. Every day I see a new link here, just to find out it was simply a rename, when the original title was IMHO perfectly appropriate.

Both are original titles—the 'asshole' one is an H1 heading and the 'egotistical' one is the HTML doc title. The submitter chose the latter, which (since it's less baity) was the better choice by the HN guidelines.

It had that title few minutes ago ...

According to the logs, it was submitted like this and never changed. Perhaps you saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438539 on the /newest page?