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We seem to have a consistent problem with folks specifically taking issue with the titles of articles. To a degree I can understand this. Headlines these days can be subject to industry pressures resulting in inflammatory and clickbaity titles (if I understand correctly most headlines are not written by the author of the article but rather by an editor). That said it tends to derail conversation about otherwise useful articles. It is worth noting, however, that here on Lemmy we can edit post titles. In most cases, the quality of the discussion is better served by providing alternative titles and asking the OP to edit their post. If the post is otherwise so egregious that it cannot be saved, you are probably best off reporting it.

In the future posts complaining about the title of the article without regard for the content are likely to be removed under some combination of rules 4 & 5.

EDIT: For clarification because my wording may have been a little confusing. Simply complaining about a headline is generally not allowed, but stating why the headline is problematic is allowed (and productive) if you provide an alternate post title for OP and recenter discussion on the content of the article.

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