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Mods, stop it with the overzealous title editing, will you? Compare: HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? Fix it, it's broken. to Ask
by latitude 14y ago
Mods, stop it with the overzealous title editing, will you? Compare:
HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? Fix it, it's broken.
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Ask HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? It's broken
This is not "Ask HN", I wasn't asking and I don't want it to come across as a question. If you feel like fixing capitalization, typos and punctuation - fine, but then stop. If you edit in a way that affects the tone and style of the title, then change the submitter name to your own! Because that title is certainly no longer mine.
- logn 14y agoGrammatically, "Fix it, it's broken" is incorrect. The correct punctuation is a semi-colon, not a comma (splice). Alternatively, you could use a colon ("Fix it: it's broken") or conjunction (e.g., "Fix it, as it's broken"). Anyhow, for hackers, "broken" and "fix it" are redundant. Also, people occasionally use "Tell HN:" but almost never "HN:". That's probably why it was edited.