If you submit a post titled "X is Blazingly Y", HN will automatically change that title to "X is Y".
Doesn't that seem a little odd? I can understand wanting to limit buzzword / clickbait titles, but isn't the word "blazingly" sometimes justified in context?
I also just tested "X is Really Y" and the same thing happened. We could probably enumerate the adverbs and get a good sense of what the list looks like, if you're not afraid of getting banned :3
"Why..." and "How..." titles are edited to remove those words. That's been the case for years. The submitter gets a 2 hour or so window to edit the title if they don't like the changes.
Except that it is in your title, so clearly is it not just a blanket removal. There must be some logic checking whether it materially adds value to the title, and removes it if not. Even if that logic is simply checking for spaces and you got around it with quotes, that is some level of thought put into it. This seems in line with the general vibe of HN and its moderation. I can see that yes, there may be some exceptions where the word would be appropriate, but that is the edge case - automating the more general rule seems reasonable to me.
> it is in your title, clearly is it not just a blanket removal. There must be some logic checking whether it materially adds value to the title, and removes it if not.
Uh that seems wrong. When HN auto-changes submission titles, you can just manually edit them back to how they were.
When HN automatically omits certain words in a submission, I click 'edit' and put the words back in. This strangely works, but not many people know you can do that.
Removing the word "Blazingly" is no good if it describes something whose name is "Blazingly".
In one case, it changed "1st" to "first" (after I had made from "first" to "1st" because the original title was two characters longer than the limit) and then it complained that it was over the limit.
Remains a "reveal bullshit" script which replaces some words on a webpage with a "bullshit" one. BTW this word does not even in a list of a those script.
Also sometimes HN changes titles to get each meaningful word capitalized.
