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Whoever introduced the rule to automatically delete :: in titles on a hacker site should be made to rethink their decisions. Its a silly rule. It should go.


Most of those silly rules can be overriden after submission, there is a timeout to enforce the desired title instead by editing it.


It would be an interesting piece to learn why.

Maybe it was for ::reasons::.


I am sure the intern who wrote a rule for the Apple VoiceOver speech synthesizer to special case the number 18 being pronounced english while the synth voice is set to german imagined to have a good reason at the time as well. However, that desn't make ther decision less stupid. "Vierzehn Uhr", "Fünfzehn Uhr", "Sechzehn Uhr", "Siebzehn Uhr", "Eighteen Uhr".




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