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HN auto-title editor strikes again: "The best pint in England" is the title.
by mmooss 4mo ago
HN auto-title editor strikes again:
"The best pint in England" is the title.
- IndySun 4mo agoWhy is the cropped title HN's fault?
- ahartmetz 4mo agoProbably because "The best X" is generally clickbaity.
- whynotisay 4mo agoOne of the worst designed features of all time. More problems than solutions with that one
- wartijn_ 4mo agoWhy did you create an alt account for this comment?
- whynotisay 4mo agoI create a new account for every top-level comment, and have for years. The moderation is so childish on this site I just take their power away. They are not actually good enough to fully ban by IP or anything else.
- IndySun 4mo agoThank you. You've articulated a common flaw in almost the entire comment-based internet. I'm an idiot and come here to learn, from a genuine curiosity standpoint - that doesn't stop experts behaving childishly though. It's simply far too easy to chide or downvote whilst 'hiding' behind account names, pseudonyms, and by the same token a flood of mob-rule can decimate curiosity in a matter of seconds. It's worse for kids. The best of the best is out there too, the well meaning, the guilty, the innocent, all at once.
- airstrike 4mo agoHN auto edits some clickbaity/tropey titles in submissions. Submitters have a grace period of several minutes to edit them back to anything they want, which will not get autocorrected, but many fail don't. They may not realize it or be too lazy to care, we'll never know. (Personally, I think anyone who considers themselves a "hacker" would at least try to bypass such a primitive system, but I digress...) Some HNers complain every time that happens, gleefully oblivious to the countless other times the autoedit feature works as advertised.