Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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[–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it's horrendous.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it's horrendous.

    Unfortunately, a lot of other websites keep doing it . And not only for marked "live" updates. Sometimes they include the revisions, but nowadays they don't even show that. Only way to handle this is (for OP) to check regularly the titles of your posted articles, especially when they are only a couple mins old . Its a bother.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a problem automation can fix. Maybe a bot that periodically check the source material's headline and revise the headline on Lemmy while keeping a history of changes. Might have it check the headline for a day so that it's not checking the same post forever.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It's a serious problem with anything marked "Live Coverage!" too. Every update changes the headline.

    Which is why I always give OPs a chance to fix it. When I post one myself, I'm re-checking it every time I go in to read new comments.

    The only thing really forbidden are headlines that are obviously editorialized.

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