Just curious. How does the leading word "How" get missed off from the headline to the submission headline? Its a totally different sentence now. Is there a word limit to HN headlines?
If there's submissions with stupid titles like "12 ways to serve Spam" then these should just be flagged by the users.
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.)
The original submitter can for a limited time. Often they don't, leading to butchered titles like this one.
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