[ginko]

I loathe this automatic editing of titles on HN. "How X became Y" and "X became Y" has a completely different meaning.

If there's submissions with stupid titles like "12 ways to serve Spam" then these should just be flagged by the users.

[mdp2021]

> automatic editing of titles

You can modify them again if the automated result is unsatisfactory.

> these should just be flagged

No, we submit articles, not titles. (Which in journalism are often not even the product of the same author.)

[ginko]

>You can modify them again if the automated result is unsatisfactory.

The original submitter can for a limited time. Often they don't, leading to butchered titles like this one.

[dang]

Anything is loathsome when you only count the cases it gets wrong!

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