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Removing the word "help" from the title dramatically changes it.
by iamaelephant 7y ago
Removing the word "help" from the title dramatically changes it.
- bretpiatt 7y agoHad to remove 4 characters to get the title length to fit in max length, do you have a suggested better removal?
- ekanes 7y agoGiant Pumice Raft Near Australia Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef
- dredmorbius 7y agoOriginal: "Giant Pumice Raft Floating Toward Australia Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef" 84 characters. GBR is off Australia, we can drop that. "Toward" adds little. Rearrange: "Giant Floating Pumice Raft Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef" 67 characters Since "raft" implies "floating" and "giant" is a largely superfluous conditional (anything that might help the GBR would have to be substantive), you could drop those for a length of 52 characters. Headline writing / editing is an art.
- oska 7y agoI submitted the same story (but from a different source) a couple of days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20785971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20785971 I had the same problem with reducing the title. In the end I decided to leave mention of the Great Barrier Reef out of the title entirely. But that also perhaps made it less likely to receive upvotes.