if title.endswith("?"): block(submission)
Re:Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
by kevinconroy on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:24PM
(#6141893)
Does this mean we'll finally block these kinds of submissions?!
"Are the days of question headlines on HN over?"
What about polls?
^ They're crap
^ I like them
Awesome. I was just about to post this.
I almost wish to kill a few hours scraping tens of thousands of headlines with question marks to find out whether these could be answered with a negative. I suspect > 85% could be answered so.
Note to self: start submitting HN posts titled, "Is [znowi] a useful HN contributor?"
Re:Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 01, 2013 @02:39PM
(#6142433)
I know you're making a joke, but https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
;)
what does that do?
Re:Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:26PM
(#6144330)
Shows the homepage with votes only counting from accounts with an age of over a year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines