I'm honestly surprised to learn they DO clean the balls; I somewhat assumed they would just throw the fouled ones away, and every once in awhile replace them all.
Guess what? Actual title is "Here's how they ...". As usual, HN automunges it to make it mean something different and if anything more clickbaity than the original title. Can't we stop doing this?
How does this even happen? I assumed it was bad metadata in the article (which is usually the cause of this problem on social media in general) but everything there looks fine.
I've wondered this as well, I'd love to hear from the mods as to how many false positives vs true positives this generates. Us, the lowly users, only spot it when it mangles a title, but does it actually provide some tangible benefit?
I don't want to judge this 'feature' too harshly without that data, but couldn't 80% of the value of this be achieved by putting the text 'please don't editorialize titles of submissions except to de-clickbaitify them' in the submission form?
Isn't it more likely the submitter chose the title? HN doesn't even auto-recommend a title for submitted content, and instead it's up to the submitter. In rare cases after the fact a mod like dang changes the title to remove editorialization.
So unsure what this whole thread of people complaining about HN supposedly mangling titles.
Can you elaborate on how the two titles mean something different? To my reading, "Here's how they ..." and "How they ..." mean the same thing. "Here's" is unnecessary. (Not saying I agree with HN removing it automatically, just that in this case I don't think it changes the meaning.)
Unfortunately ... this is probably only how they clean the balls in a VERY small minority of ball pits. The majority are probably still germ superspreaders.
Thanks. It would be slightly less of a kick-in-the-balls if the page told you there was a video that was blocked, rather than just leaving a big empty space.
If it's any consolation, from the perspective of a visual browser user who scrolls to the bottom, this article just... keeps on going forever. And it really fucks with your browser history if you do so!
(Oh, and it also just ends abruptly after "Here's what the machines do:")
iOS user with clear eyesight here, the article just ends for me too - other users have suggested there’s an imgur video embedded somewhere but I can’t see where, just some awkward photos of a ball pit vacuum washer.
They show it going through a machine that seems to at best maybe vacuum off dust and maybe get a part of the ball with UV? Am I missing something? Seems more like the illusion of cleaning. The description of Chucky cheese running them through an industrial dishwasher seems more like actual cleaning.
In the description it calls it a "deep clean", which seems suspect.
>They show it going through a machine that seems to at best maybe vacuum off dust and maybe get a part of the ball with UV? Am I missing something?
It gets washed off with soap and water inside the machine, you can tell because in the video you can see soap suds, shortly after it shows the UV step.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 48.8 ms ] threadI don't want to judge this 'feature' too harshly without that data, but couldn't 80% of the value of this be achieved by putting the text 'please don't editorialize titles of submissions except to de-clickbaitify them' in the submission form?
So unsure what this whole thread of people complaining about HN supposedly mangling titles.
As annoying as Google's monopoly of the web is, I wish sites would just stick with YouTube for video content.
(Oh, and it also just ends abruptly after "Here's what the machines do:")
In the description it calls it a "deep clean", which seems suspect.
It gets washed off with soap and water inside the machine, you can tell because in the video you can see soap suds, shortly after it shows the UV step.