Original title had "massive" as an adjective to galaxies which explains the comma, HN sometimes removes these "superlative" words from the title creating this kind of nonsense.
Hah, but galaxies are one of the few things where "massive" in the original sense of the word is appropriate. The article is about galaxies that are more massive than expected.
The bots wouldn't know
Hands down my least favorite feature of Hacker News. Maybe I'd change my mind if it wasn't on and I had to endure all of the clickbaity and superlative ridden headlines but right now I feel like the confusion this creates is much more annoying than the nasty original headlines it is protecting us from.
I've always wondered why headlines are limited to 80 chars but comment lines on wide screens aren't wrapped until > 200 characters.
I think it's overall a good feature, but I'd prefer that it were voluntary. Have HN show you the original headline and the proposed modifications, and let the submitter adjust as necessary.
Doesn't the filter only apply when you first submit? Can't you edit the headline back to how it was after the submission posts if it gets it wrong?
You can, that's correct.
Account age seems to correlate well to sensitivity to such things.
I took away the premise just fine without getting hung up on elementary grammar.
HN also has a relatively short character limit in titles, I often find myself deleting superlative words in order to make it fit.
Although in this case it looks like the automated modding of the title.
Fixed, now.
Another HN reader spots extraneous "b" that shouldn't exist in Web's name