From your blog: > I have received some criticism lately about the way I title my blog posts. And I got accused of clickbaiting the readers in order to get more

From your blog: > I have received some criticism lately about the way I title my blog posts. And I got accused of clickbaiting the readers in order to get more views. But you have to understand now that with social media , writers have to get interested in a story in just 60 characters and a picture while you’re scrolling. In fact you have to get you interested enough to stop scrolling, click the link and read a portion of the content. That stuff might work for BuzzFeed and ClickHole but HN is shock full of weary intelligent people who come to the site to get away from all that nonsense. They probably feel condescended to by the type of headline and post created with the idea that "the quality of the post doesn’t really matter, what resides is the message of the title" and they will run at the faintest whiff of such a cynical approach. > We were not all born as evil clickbaiters it is just that you readers won’t click on anything else, and if my articles stop getting hits (even though I don’t use any Ads network) I will stop writing for lack of interest. HN people can tell. If you instead write about stuff you really care about, they will tell that you are genuinely trying to participate in the community, and then even if they don't think your stuff is most amazing stuff ever you will probably get more community response and comments.