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Give me Z reasons why you don't like "X reasons for Y" posts.
by WilliamLP 16y ago
Give me Z reasons why you don't like "X reasons for Y" posts.
- SkyMarshal 16y ago9 Reasons Why You Should Hate "X Reasons for Y" posts: 1. They're overdone 2. They're uncreative 3. They're unoriginal 4. They're a crutch 5. They're assembly-line writing 6. They're used by tabloids to appeal to supermarket zombies 7. They've helped turn respectable mags into tabloids (or are a symptom of it, not sure which came first) 8. They're psychologically manipulative (I don't know how, I just know it) 9. They work :)
- joshfinnie 16y agoYou forgot to put these across 11 individual comments so your 8pts would have been multiplied to 88! I do not mind lists, but I cannot stand lists that are seperated to pages for inflated page counts!
- koeselitz 16y agoHe was going to put it across 11 comments, but as the Wikipedia article clearly points out, xz compression conventionally bundles a single file.
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- Perceval 16y agoThe HN Guidelines explicitly frown upon "X reasons..." titles because they're almost always linkbait. If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html