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It's DARPA, not Darpa. It's the Hacker News submission title replacement code again, it's not the first time that the acronyms in the titles has been replaced i
by segfaultbuserr 7y ago
It's DARPA, not Darpa. It's the Hacker News submission title replacement code again, it's not the first time that the acronyms in the titles has been replaced improperly. To those who didn't know its existence...
1. It properly capitalizes the title, making it more pleasant to read, and it also automatically removes the ALL CAPS titles. But from time to time, it makes the title worse by removing the proper acronyms.
2. It removes buzzwords from the title, which is generally good for anti-karma farming, but sometimes it does this even if such use is technically appropriate. For example, "massively parallel" becomes "parallel".
Submitter, please change the title back manually. And moderators, please update your code to recognize more acronyms, such as DARPA, CSAIL, etc.
- the-dude 7y agohttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51924/proper-capitalization-of-commonly-used-acronyms https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51924/proper-cap...
- dragonwriter 7y ago> It's DARPA, not Darpa. Well, that depends on house style; it's not unheard of to set acronyms (in the narrow sense; that is, abbreviations pronounced as words) in initial caps rather than all caps, though that's (IME, at least) a more common style for English publications outside of the US.