Brilliant.
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#12It looks like the mods are sticklers for capitalization. I’m looking forward to seeing this post’s title edited.
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#13Curious how something such as this is actually implemented. Is there a feed that you are subscribing to? Are you consistently polling posts looking for changes? Or is it some third option?
There is an API link in the footer of the page.
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#14Note that not all title changes are mod edits. They could be from the original submitter.
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#15Why doesn't HN have an auto-title suggester that si ply pulls in the title of the target URL? Would save a lot of heartache.
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#16Note that not all title changes are mod edits. They could be from the original submitter.
Only within the first ~10 minutes post-submission
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#17When can we expect a browser extension that restores the original titles? :)
That would be great :)
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#18Why doesn't HN have an auto-title suggester that si ply pulls in the title of the target URL? Would save a lot of heartache.
There's no "the title" - there are lots of choices, including the HTML doc title, the URL itself (which sometimes-has-a-hyphenated-title-like-this), headings on the page. None is reliably the best choice, and all of them are frequently crap; frequently enough that it wouldn't make sense to have any of them be an official suggestion.
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#19This is probably just evidence that I care about something unimportant, but sharing this after noticing a diminishing change today: In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient ↓ U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient in reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882912
You aren’t alone. I’ve noticed a major uptick in these types of editorial changes that remove or obscure the intent of the underlying content. They don’t seem to follow a consistent editorial standard or voice, and are having a noticeable effect on the quality of the HN UX.
There's no uptick. The mod practices around titles haven't changed in many years.
It's also probably a lot more consistent than it seems. That doesn't translate into perception, though, because people tend to notice the ones that annoy them. I wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954907
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#20Curious how something such as this is actually implemented. Is there a feed that you are subscribing to? Are you consistently polling posts looking for changes? Or is it some third option?
You could ask https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petercooper, who wrote it.
I thought it had been submitted more often but I guess it has mostly been mentioned in comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...