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FFS, the original title, something like "Mt. Gox suspends U.S. Dollar Withdrawls for two weeks", was FINE.

"Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withdrawals" makes NO SENSE out of context.

Mods: Please STOP rewriting titles to match the page! You're NOT doing it right!

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I also hate how it makes it seem like a new post, but then you click through and see the same comments.

I hope it's automated, otherwise someone is wasting a lot of time on busywork. It's like that guy who reformats all your code just because.

Another suggestion would be to add a little "title edited by: MOD_USERNAME" tag to any edited titles so we could at least keep track of the moderators who are doing it incorrectly.

As it stands, I have no idea if pg himself edited the title or if it was some random user who recently acquired the correct amount of karma.

> or if it was some random user who recently acquired the correct amount of karma

I certainly hope moderatorship isn't granted based on a karma threshold.

Certain permissions are, like when you get over 500 karma for example as you should soon: you will notice a downvote option beside comments that are not a directly reply to your own.

If it's based on a karma threshold, I haven't reached it yet, which would mean that the bar is fairly high.

If you want karma all you have to do is submit a lot of garbage, just keep it coming. Most of your submissions will get 0 votes, a few will get you 10 or 20 votes, and one or two will get you 300-400. That's how downvoters get their downvoting powers.

Another option is to submit quality comments for a decade without being banned for saying something against Ruby or whatever the mods are emotionally or economically attached to at the time. Then you may be able to downvote.

>Another option is to submit quality comments for a decade without being banned for saying something against Ruby or whatever the mods are emotionally or economically attached to at the time. Then you may be able to downvote.

That strategy has worked for me.

> created: 741 days ago

That’s one short decade!

No one has said that HN karma is worth anything. I was just providing anecdotal evidence on whether or not there is a karma threshold for moderator status.

Also,

  | for a decade

HN hasn't been around for a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

They are Yc alum

What difference does it make whether pg did it or someone else did? The change was not a good idea.

I agree. The idea that a submitter might add some value to the summary through a better title doesn't seem strange for a site that is based around the idea that its members add value through collection and commentary upon those articles. Why is this one piece of data sacred?

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