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HN Mods why are you allowing click bait headlines on here? You're throwing another rock into the net we're carrying every time you allow this. Some day the mast
by eezurr 8y ago
HN Mods why are you allowing click bait headlines on here? You're throwing another rock into the net we're carrying every time you allow this. Some day the master fisherman are going to get sick of carrying rocks. ie, I come here to learn from the fishermen, not the rock throwers.
I can "feel" this headline yanking my brain for attention. "How could it get worse?!" "What did they do now?!" "How was this month very bad?!" "I for sure enjoy perceived petty revenge against large evil corp".
Edit: We're allowed to have a different title than the actual article.
- wglb 8y agoI think that the title reflects the content of the article. The rules say that the title must be not editorialized. This comment doesn't really add to the discussion in a positive way.
- danso 8y agoI agree the headline is seemingly a little clickbaity. But the article itself is 1,700 words from the New Yorker. Because it enumerates a variety of controversies, "Very Bad Month" ends up being the most succinct way to describe the content of the article. I don't understand "fishermen" metaphor. Whose "we" in "You're throwing another rock into the net we're carrying..."?
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- dang 8y agoWe don't come close to seeing all the posts here, so if you want us to take a look at a baity headline or some other concern on HN, you need to email us at hn@ycombinator.com. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Someone pinged me about your comment and I've changed the title now, but of course it's too late to make much difference.