Changed to HTML doc title to avoid the linkbait in "Things Nobody Told You About ZFS".
Unrelated: I really don't think dang's post here warranted downvoting. I expect that it's being done by folks who really want HN's moderators to know they're unhappy about titles being changed as capriciously as they sometimes are. This post is an actual moderator soliciting actual input on how to make at least one instance of that problem better, however, and I think that should be encouraged, not dinged.
It's ok for dang to get dinged. But "capricious"? No. I realize it sometimes seems that way to people paying sporadic attention, but every change we make is in keeping with the HN guidelines, and those are hardly secret or unclear.
We make mistakes, of course, and are always open to improvement. The helpful way to criticize an HN title is to suggest a better one.
Better policy a): Don't change the titles users submit. Trust the community to flag linkbait titles.
Better policy b): Don't allow users to submit a title. Automatically scrape the title from the linked page. Have moderators change the titles when they're unhelpful or misleading (this is much less likely to annoy users than the current system, because the moderator wouldn't be replacing the submitter's title, it would be the HN system replacing another part of the HN system).
edit: Suggest a better title rather than suggest a better policy? How is one supposed to suggest a better title? There is no form for that, and it's not something to clutter the comments with.
So by changing it to a more boring title, you ensure that fewer people read the article.
Brilliant.
Incidentally, "Things Nobody Told You About ZFS" is the subtitle of the article in question, and arguably is a more informative description of its contents than "ZFS: Read Me First".