People do it all the time. There's no rule against it. More to the point when someone (in this case me) submits an article what they are doing is sharing something they found interesting with the rest of the community.
In that sense I don't see how it's unreasonable to give my take on the article in the title.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The guidelines, although not rules, ask you not to do it. If the article is interesting, it'll get upvotes.
Your take might be different than mine, and more importantly, than the article author. If you thing the USA Senate (including a presidential candidate who snatched the popular vote), journalism's fate, new laws, and people with more power than we both deciding how we should digest information is "funny"... well... you're alienated.
Don't editorialize the title, it's just not cool. If you want to expand why you think it's funny, write a blog post or write a comment. I am sure we've never heard how the MSM doesn't "get" the internet, how their business models should change, how the hyper-local journalism is the future, etc... include a Bill O'Reilly video and I am sure you can also get Digg's frontpage.
And I am sorry for my agressive behaviour. It's 7am and I drank a few beers. Just don't editorialize the title, please.
"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it. "
So you're just wrong on this. (For the record I did write a blog post on my blog but I wanted to share the link and didn't feel my post's expansion of the issue was as relevant as the initial article)
As far as it being funny I'm sorry but it is. Saying Google should be guilty of copyright infringement for crawling a website is ridiculous. If someone said it on Saturday Night Live it would get a huge laugh. Because it's comical
Hey, I just want to apologize. While I still think your title is wrong (er... it is a gratuitous editorial spin), when I woke up this morning I regretted writing in that tone while drunk. Not something that I would do face-to-face, I assure you... my bad.
