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Ask PG/HN: Plings in titles ...
I've had a vague impression for a time that something like this has been happening, but now I've seen it for definite and for real. I submitted an item - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127187 - putting plings in the title, and yet when I checked the submission, the plings had gone.
Then I edited the title, and the plings turned up.
Can someone cast any light on the processes here? Are the permitted characters in titles different in initial submissions as opposed to edits? If so, is this deliberate?
Thanks. I await answers with interest.
- tdoggette 16y agoFor anyone else wondering, a pling is a bang, or an exclamation mark.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoAh - thank you. Sometimes it's easy to forget that terms one uses commonly are not, in fact, common.
- allenbrunson 16y agoI can vaguely remember this being referred to once before. I'm pretty sure it's just one of many things pg is doing to prevent people from sensationalizing submission titles. Another is a fairly short character limit.