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As a note on presentation - can we avoid stock ticker shortenings in article titles and switch AMZN to Amazon?
by munk-a 6y ago
As a note on presentation - can we avoid stock ticker shortenings in article titles and switch AMZN to Amazon?
- bigdict 6y agothere’s a mental disorder vibe to using tickers instead of normal company names
- stingraycharles 6y agoI understand what you’re referring to, but calling it a “mental disorder vibe” is just insulting people for no good reason.
- DLA 6y agoReally? What disorder is that?
- labster 6y agoI’ve always wondered why the FCC was in charge of regulating T cells.
- stevenjohns 6y agoYou see it happen on HN often because of title length limits.
- dang 6y agoNot so often. Looks like 9 cases of AMZN in the last year compared to over 3000 for Amazon. Incidentally, abbreviations are not a good way to work around HN's title limit. The idea is to find a shorter meaningful title, not to use tricks to squeeze more in. This is nearly always possible.
- xenocyon 6y agoYes, that was my only reason for employing the abbreviation. In any case, it appears that the mods have chosen to switch out the title with a different one (my original carried an excerpt from the job posting which is now removed).