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There's a HN auto filter that removes unnecessary words from titles That could be the cause
by herendin 4y ago
There's a HN auto filter that removes unnecessary words from titles
That could be the cause
- okamiueru 4y agoExpressions like "huge deal", should perhaps be left alone. Either that, or replace both with "significant" or "important". But that too seems silly.
- burntalmonds 4y agoPerhaps? It completely changes the original meaning.
- veidr 4y agoThanks! (Including the descendant commenters.) Wondering about that is why I bothered to comment at all. I assumed there must be some logical-but-not-quite-working reason. :-D
- Aardwolf 4y agoThis are the weird and visible cases of HN's title rewriting algorithm going wrong. I guess the cases where it does the right thing are not noticeable, and that's why I only see the bad cases. Are there examples where HN title rewriting did something good, or cases where before HN did this titles were very bad or clickbaity?