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yuan43 | 3 years ago

How did this article get the first word "How" through the HN filter? Why does this filter exist?

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nkurz|3 years ago

1) The filter only exists for the initial submission. You can manually edit the leading word back in after that if you want.

2) I'm not certain, but I presume the idea is that many clickbait article titles are improved by removing the "how".