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Just curious: I understand why titles might be reset to the raw title found on the page, but in this case it's just made the headline less useful.

I added a tiny bit of context when posting - to explain to people why this might be interesting to them. "Pythagorean 'greedy' cup - empties entirely if filled too much".

What's the purpose of reducing that to just the raw wikipedia title?

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Your added context worked for me. I saw your original title but did not have time to read an article, but your title interested me enough that I noted to myself to come back and read it later.

I would have skipped it under the current title.

Thanks, I thought as much. I certainly noticed that it got a lot of votes - title changed - and it started to get much fewer upvotes, indicating that less people bothered to read it.

I was the same. I saw the full title in the morning and thought it looked interesting enought to read later. When I came back the title had changed and I wouldn't have clicked through had I not seen the explanation in the original title.

Glad I did, too, because it's such a clever "gadget"!

Hypothesis: It's more 'smartass' without the context. More obscure, etc.

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