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It is a shame. As it stands now, the system "punishes" rule followers who leave the original, uninteresting title and thereby get no traction.

But those who rewrite the title to something more obviously relevant get decent views even if the submission is re-titled later.



That's why I think the removal of the "you can make up a new title [as long as it's not ridiculous]" rule is bizarre. Now you might as well break the rules to get out of /newest and then confuse everyone once it's on FP and edited back ;-)

The sad fact is a lot of people who create great content are really, really bad at titles.




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