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Please don't rewrite titles, especially to make them more baity. This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Titles are by far the strongest influence on discussion, so this rule is much more important than it seems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Python 3 Is Now 10 Years Old Was It Worth It?".)

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In the submission form, have the title field auto populated from the URL.

Would take about 5 minutes to integrate this... certainly less than it takes to deal with people coming up with their own titles, sometimes without a malicious intent, they just don't know the rules.

https://embed.ly/extract

You don't have to look at many URLs to see how hard that would be.

Not to mention "unless it misleading or linkbait", which is not something code can take care of.

If the "was it worth it?" bit is the focus of the piece, that's actually helpful and informative.

Not all title additions are bad.

Edit: not really the focus, it's more of an outline of an overview of what happened. But still.

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