I suggest restoring the original title of the article, which is "Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully". The purpose of preventing titles from beginning with numbers is to get rid of things like "10 things you need to know as an entrepreneur", but in this case the number refers to the number of books, so the pattern has overmatched.
It looks like your suggestion caused this to be flag killed or something. It was on the front page, now it is nowhere to be found in the first 600 entries. Glitch in the algorithmic matrix?
Now the title has been truncated even further, from "Reasons to choose your reading carefully" to "Choose your reading carefully". Just use the original title, which was fine. In fact, it was better, because "three thousand reasons" refers to the number of books left in the author's reading-lifetime. This context has now been stripped, for no good reason.
This sort of questionable title editing is a recurring theme on Hacker News. I might be willing to help with this issue if there's an easy way to get involved. I think the kind of editorial judgment required to make good title changes is right in my wheelhouse.
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I suggest restoring the original title of the article, which is "Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully". The purpose of preventing titles from beginning with numbers is to get rid of things like "10 things you need to know as an entrepreneur", but in this case the number refers to the number of books, so the pattern has overmatched.
It looks like your suggestion caused this to be flag killed or something. It was on the front page, now it is nowhere to be found in the first 600 entries. Glitch in the algorithmic matrix?
currently #13 on the front page
Dang. If I'm logged in, it isn't anywhere to be found. If I'm not logged in, it is indeed #13.
I must have posted to this thread too much?
Now the title has been truncated even further, from "Reasons to choose your reading carefully" to "Choose your reading carefully". Just use the original title, which was fine. In fact, it was better, because "three thousand reasons" refers to the number of books left in the author's reading-lifetime. This context has now been stripped, for no good reason.
This sort of questionable title editing is a recurring theme on Hacker News. I might be willing to help with this issue if there's an easy way to get involved. I think the kind of editorial judgment required to make good title changes is right in my wheelhouse.