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Just curious. How does the leading word "How" get missed off from the headline to the submission headline? Its a totally different sentence now. Is there a word
by jspash 1y ago
Just curious. How does the leading word "How" get missed off from the headline to the submission headline? Its a totally different sentence now. Is there a word limit to HN headlines?
- mdp2021 1y agoThere is a pattern recognition and transformation mechanism in place that rearranges bad title forms, such as "12 ways to serve Spam".
- ginko 1y agoI loathe this automatic editing of titles on HN. "How X became Y" and "X became Y" has a completely different meaning. If there's submissions with stupid titles like "12 ways to serve Spam" then these should just be flagged by the users.
- mdp2021 1y ago> automatic editing of titles You can modify them again if the automated result is unsatisfactory. > these should just be flagged No, we submit articles, not titles. (Which in journalism are often not even the product of the same author.)
- ginko 1y ago>You can modify them again if the automated result is unsatisfactory. The original submitter can for a limited time. Often they don't, leading to butchered titles like this one.
- dang 1y agoAnything is loathsome when you only count the cases it gets wrong! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20count%20%22gets%20wrong%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...