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I thought HN had code to automatically remove clickbait words like "How" from titles. (Not sure why they aren't simply banned)
by sukilot 6y ago
I thought HN had code to automatically remove clickbait words like "How" from titles. (Not sure why they aren't simply banned)
- dang 6y agoIt does, but there are a lot of exceptions and this one fell in one of those buckets. Stripping all leading Hows turns out to produce too much collateral damage. For example, consider a title like "How Paper Is Made". Edit: this one worked nicely though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597937