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You're probably wasting your time here. A previous thread about this got a lot of attention, and I got a nastygram from pg as a result, basically saying "quit wasting everyone's time with this issue." I don't think they're likely to change this policy anytime soon. Good luck, though.

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His nastygrams are awesome:

Subject: "stop"

Message: "Please don't rewrite headlines to change the meaning."

This doesn't seem too bad to me. This message is straightforward, not nasty.

FWIW, I'm only using the term "nastygram" as a stock figure of speech. I didn't find the note I got from pg to be particularly nasty, although I did - and still do - disagree on this particular issue. shrug

What issue?

Admins changing the titles of submitted links. There have been a few cases where it happened and the "fixed" title was worse than the one provided by the submitter to a pretty ridiculous degree. I said something about that on one such story, my comment was the most upvoted comment by far, and sparked a huge thread on the subject. Hence the "nastygram" from pg.

No biggie, I understand that they don't want link titles full of gratuitous spin and editorializing, but sometimes the original title just isn't useful. But what can ya do... pg's site, pg's rules. :-)

I agree! How about this one: http://i.imgur.com/QwuX5aA.png

Edit: I'm talking about 'awesomeness' of his comments, not 'nastyness', don't take it out of the context pls.

That definitely fits the nasty criteria.

Personally, this leans on the polite side to me.

It was more about 'awesome' rather than 'nasty'.

That's not nasty, it's frank and polite.

Can we settle on "brusque"?

I wonder if it caused as much trouble as his whole "new, revolutionary language" debacle.

Nasty is insulting your mom, the size of your penis, and your race. It's just short and straight to the point without a buncha fluff.