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Love the HN title mod here lol
by NewJazz 10mo ago
Love the HN title mod here lol
- stavros 10mo agoHN removes a "how" if the post starts with it, sometimes making it hilarious.
- dkdcio 10mo agoI’ve seen this a few times now, what’s the context/background on why this is done?
- NewJazz 10mo agoI think maybe they check for "How to [...]" and other variations? "How I broke TLS 1.3" -> "I broke TLS 1.3"
- dkdcio 10mo agoyeah but why?
- JCattheATM 10mo agoOver-engineering to solve a problem that doesn't exist, thereby making one.
- dkdcio 10mo agosure…what’s the motivation? is this seriously that difficult of a question to answer? this “solution” was put in place for a reason, what’s the reason? does nobody actually know?
- NewJazz 10mo agoSomeone was annoyed by certain cliche titles I guess. They also remove numbers. So if you post "1850 Bloody Island Massacre" it removes the number. But it is meant to remove eg. "13 reasons why you should impeac[...]" B/c apparently the number of reasons why is too much of a cliche or bother? Idk. Email dang haha
- zem 10mo agoyeah, really wish they would fix that one!
- frisovv 10mo agoTbh the missing how is probably why I followed the link. And I appreciated the post, so net positive outcome here.
- DonHopkins 10mo agoOtherwise you might confuse it with the HN mod tomhow. Same reason they remove "dang" if the post starts with it, like the discussion about "Dang! Who ate the middle out of the daddy longlegs". https://ifunny.co/picture/dang-who-ate-the-middle-out-of-the-daddy-longlegs-OeLw20CcA https://ifunny.co/picture/dang-who-ate-the-middle-out-of-the...