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The title is editorialized (and I'd say egregiously so): the title of the article is "No general method to detect fraud"

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Seems like the author of TFA submitted it to HN, so they editorialised their own title.

We cut authors some slack about that, but not when the submitted title is clickbait. We've changed it now. (Submitted title was "Slick Tricks for Tricky Dicks". That's one hell of a stretch.)

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The article itself looks good though!

Sorry about that, I changed the title after posting it here, when I realised how terrible it was. It wasn't really intended as clickbait though and in fact it actually functioned as anti-clickbait. As a few people have said, it looked like a "risky click". :|

Glad you liked it though.

> I changed the title after posting it here

Ah, like the New York Times. No worries :)

I'm very sorry about that. The submitted title was the one I originally had but it took me a while to realise that it wasn't very good. I changed my mind about it but you can't edit titles on HN submissions after publishing.

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