40 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted to treat adults like adults. That's the headline.

Yes, the state known for treating adults like adults until they assault or rob people.

that's actually almost every state and country in the world

Most states and countries punish criminals with fines, jail or death depending on the crime

Most states stop treating adults like adults when they commit crimes?

yes, you lose the rights to be treated as an adult, because you've demonstrated you can't be one, and consequently must be babysat

e.g., going to jail, your room and board, your exercise, your hygiene, and general behavior will be decided for you, in a way determined best for society

I'm glad you don't like California. You're comment has nothing to do with the article or my comment. Please refrain from comments like this on HN.

HN will drop a number in a title by default. I have to edit the titles all the time for this. I'm not sure why HN has that logic but never asked dang.

It's presumably because of this item in the submission guidelines:

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The rules work 99% of the time but the automation of the rules some times make it so a little manual work is needed

For what it's worth, I appreciate the rules. The experience is much better for me! But I don't typically submit articles, so I'm never impacted by the manual effort.

Manual curation is what makes or breaks this site, I've had several interactions with dan and he's an excellent person.

They even will try and surface good content that didn't make it to the home page with a second chance pool ymmv

In this case, I think the rule is still good. "3 Republicans" is a baity title imo. It would have been better reworded, possibly just to "California's magic mushroom bill", or not submitted if it's only about the 3 Republicans, the politics angle doesn't accomplish much.

“Gratuitous” is a critical word in that guideline (“gratuitous” is not, itself, gratuitous); if removing the number substantiallly changes the connotation (or, a fortiori, denotation, but that's not an issue here) then the number isn't gratuitous.

Yes, in which case you're supposed to go back and manually edit the title. The automation doesn't always work but it nudges things in the right direction.

Thank you, I didn't even realize that I failed to copy the 3. It was unintentional and it's fixed.

HN removes it

Why?

"Top 10 reasons why this title is spammy" and titles like it