"Remarkable" does not mean extraordinary, it means worth remarking upon. Hence the old saw in Philosophy: "No remark without remarkableness." There is a connota

"Remarkable" does not mean extraordinary, it means worth remarking upon. Hence the old saw in Philosophy: "No remark without remarkableness." There is a connotation of surprise, in addition, but surely surprise is warranted. I am very willing to believe that there's some difference in usage on different sides of the Atlantic, but doubt that difference is extreme, in fact it may not even be remarkable. Note that the response you got was that others aren't reliable when extracting statistics from articles, so while you may be very reliable in this way, they can't trust users to do this and have had to draw a line. I too hate clickbait (unless it's a headline I wrote, of course) but "remarkable" doesn't trigger me.