I don't think it's your mistake. It seems HN automatically removes certain leading/trailing words from titles so as to reduce clickbait but it doesn't seem to be very smart about it.
It gets annoying, because in cases like this it doesn't make sense, but in other cases it actually changes the meaning of the title. I honestly don't understand it given the prohibition against submitters changing the title.
I'd be much less annoyed by it if dang finally made it a pre-submit check (maybe with a checkbox "Overrule") like the "too long" check. But no, it seems to be important that the submitter has to check manually whether the title he just typed in is still there.
bachmeier|3 years ago
Tomte|3 years ago
I'd be much less annoyed by it if dang finally made it a pre-submit check (maybe with a checkbox "Overrule") like the "too long" check. But no, it seems to be important that the submitter has to check manually whether the title he just typed in is still there.