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I think they get changed by the server itself, without human intervention.

If the poster has enough karma, I think the HN code should trust the user's title over the <h1>.

In addition to how error prone that would be (we'd see at least occasional weird title glitches) combined with how titles sometimes are actually changed by moderators in the other direction (as in, away from the real title, as I noticed with the recently posted article about someone just discovering malloc's overcommit behavior), a few days ago pg explicitly stated that this belief was not true (but seemed to think the idea that people thought the human moderators were so fast and accurate so as to be mistaken for computers worthy of note).

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