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Why remove “How” from the original title? "How the EU will force all artists to use Youtube, forever". Edit: even the original title is misleading: it should b
by hk__2 8y ago
Why remove “How” from the original title? "How the EU will force all artists to use Youtube, forever".
Edit: even the original title is misleading: it should be something like "How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube, forever, if that EU proposal is approved".
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- DoreenMichele 8y agoThere is a character limit. I'm on my phone, so checking character count isn't convenient for me at the moment, but that's a common reason to drop words that add little meaning.
- 37 8y agoA very brief look at the HN homepage tells me this is not the reason.
- 1337biz 8y agoI have had countless times these problems with the hn character limit. It is really tricky deciding which words to cut out or how to reframe titles when the hn limit sets in. Somebody is always going to be unhappy (if the submission ever makes it ot the front page).
- hk__2 8y agoBut the original title doesn’t even come close to the character limit. "How the EU will force all artists to use Youtube, forever" is 57-characters-long while the submission limit is 80. A quick look at the current homepage shows that exactly a third of its titles (10 out of 30) are longer than 57 characters.
- dang 8y agoLooks like the submitter was helpfully trying to adhere to HN title conventions. But in this case I don't think "How" is so bad. Also, we'll put "may" above, since you make a good point there.