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I don't understand why the title got edited by OP from "How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses" to remove the "How". It just turns it
by iLoveOncall 2y ago
I don't understand why the title got edited by OP from "How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses" to remove the "How". It just turns it into an obvious statement and doesn't convey what the article is about, which is about their life, training, etc.
- vbezhenar 2y agoHN automatically does that.
- jajko 2y agoWhat would be the reason? In most titles / statements I can come up with it changes the meaning, and saving 4 chars ain't good enough reason, better would be a/an/the.
- vbezhenar 2y agoApparently those kinds of titles are considered "clickbaity". I agree that this particular edit makes things confusing.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoI think there was a rapidly rising tide of auto-generated blogspam "How-To" articles at one point, that can be filtered in a fairly specifc way.
- remoquete 2y agoYou can re-edit it to preserve the How though.
- HPsquared 2y agoI wonder what the statistics look like on these auto adjustments.
- krisoft 2y ago> It just turns it into an obvious statement and doesn't convey what the article is about, which is about their life, training, etc. It's not an obvious statement. It tells us that the gladiators aimed to entertain the masses. It could have been that they didn't care about their audience (and only cared about money, or saving their lives). Or it could be that they had contempt for their audience (if they for example were forced to fight against their will). It could also have been that they lived to entertain the elites and not the masses. Or lived to entertain other gladiators, or please the gods or any other alternatives.