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HN title optimizer has once again stripped the “How” from the beginning of the title.

• efilife 11mo ago
  what's the point of this?
  • JadeNB 11mo ago
    "I block all online ads" is a less useful title than "How I block all online ads", and pointing out when the title mangler has made the title worse serves as a request to moderators to fix it if they agree. Which they did here, I believe for a net win.
    • efilife 11mo ago
      I meant what's the point of truncating the title like this
      • mikestew 11mo ago
        An anti-clickbait measure, IIRC. I can’t, off the top of my head, think of an example this prevents, though.
      • kotaKat 11mo ago
        an early anti-clickbait feature that dropped “why” and “how”; you can manually edit after submission to append the ‘how’ or ‘why’ back onto the article.