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I think it's ridiculous that you're being downvoted, it smacks of HN not wanting to admit they're susceptible to upvoting clickbait nonsense. Just because your

I think it's ridiculous that you're being downvoted, it smacks of HN not wanting to admit they're susceptible to upvoting clickbait nonsense. Just because your post is obvious doesn't mean it's not also the right response to this article.

abiox 10y ago
i hypothesize that the votes aren't about right-ness or wrong-ness, rather it may be more akin to "yes, we know, we've seen the betteridge link in every other post". it's also not clear that the article is "clickbait nonsense".
spuz 10y ago
People are not downvoting the comment because they believe that the headline is not clickbait, and the article is not nonsense. They are downvoting because the comment adds nothing that has not already been discussed many times already in other contexts. Headlines are often click-baity, now let's move on please.
- deathhand 10y ago
  To derail the discussion even further: 1.)The given audience in any form is always changing. He might have given new information to someone who hasn't seen it before(young,new english speaker, ect) 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject.
  - privong 10y ago
    > 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject. I think you're being too generous with regard to the OP's comment. That comment appeared to be mostly a throw-away attempt to reference Bettridge's law, rather than offering any substantiate thoughts on the potential discovery or its likelihood of being a spurious result.
- Dolores12 10y ago
  Why read article if nothing new were found? Betteridge Law is a timesaver. You can get instant answer without reading whole article.
dang 10y ago
Bringing up the Betteridge thing became a cliché years ago. It was interesting when pg originally posted it, quickly became tedious, and now is merely mechanical. It's also not as true as people think. Yes there are bad titles out there, though this article's is light years from the worst. That is no reason to bog HN threads down with predictable gunk. Anything predictable is boring.

abiox 10y ago

i hypothesize that the votes aren't about right-ness or wrong-ness, rather it may be more akin to "yes, we know, we've seen the betteridge link in every other post". it's also not clear that the article is "clickbait nonsense".

spuz 10y ago

People are not downvoting the comment because they believe that the headline is not clickbait, and the article is not nonsense. They are downvoting because the comment adds nothing that has not already been discussed many times already in other contexts. Headlines are often click-baity, now let's move on please.

deathhand 10y ago
To derail the discussion even further: 1.)The given audience in any form is always changing. He might have given new information to someone who hasn't seen it before(young,new english speaker, ect) 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject.
- privong 10y ago
  > 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject. I think you're being too generous with regard to the OP's comment. That comment appeared to be mostly a throw-away attempt to reference Bettridge's law, rather than offering any substantiate thoughts on the potential discovery or its likelihood of being a spurious result.
Dolores12 10y ago
Why read article if nothing new were found? Betteridge Law is a timesaver. You can get instant answer without reading whole article.

dang 10y ago

Bringing up the Betteridge thing became a cliché years ago. It was interesting when pg originally posted it, quickly became tedious, and now is merely mechanical. It's also not as true as people think. Yes there are bad titles out there, though this article's is light years from the worst. That is no reason to bog HN threads down with predictable gunk. Anything predictable is boring.