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This is a HN "feature" removing How if it's the first word in the title. It serves no purpose other than generating confusion, with mods saying this somehow sto
by progbits 1y ago
This is a HN "feature" removing How if it's the first word in the title. It serves no purpose other than generating confusion, with mods saying this somehow stops clickbait. How, you wonder? Nobody knows.
- littlerbooks 1y agoWeird. I see a post titled "How to store Go pointers from assembly" literally three posts below this one.
- happytoexplain 1y agoI believe the submitter can manually reject the auto-modified title, but they have to notice that it was modified. (I could be wrong about that)
- Stratoscope 1y agoYou are correct.
- indigodaddy 1y agoNot quite reject exactly, you can just edit the title afterward for some X amount of time.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- Stratoscope 1y agoReminder to anyone submitting an article: you have two hours to edit the title to fix these alterations.
- rbanffy 1y agoI believe these changes are intended to defang some clickbaity titles, but you are right that it maims some perfectly good ones.
- adastra22 1y agoYou wonder?