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minimaxir / hacker-news-undocumented

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ.
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Titles are auto-edited #41

Open aranke opened 4 years ago

aranke commented 4 years ago

See this HN thread for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23608358

Some examples are:

  1. How to X -> To X
  2. N ways to X -> How to X

Thanks!

minimaxir commented 4 years ago

True, although that's not a feature per se.

weaversam8 commented 3 years ago

Additional case where this happens:

zzo38 commented 2 years ago

In some cases it makes words longer instead of shorter, and sometimes this results in the title being too long, even though at first it was not too long.

Once I had a title containing "first" but was two characters longer than the maximum, so I changed it to "1st" but then the auto-correction changed it back to "first" and then complained again that it is too long.