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Your title wasn't really great honestly, unfortunately this community is often based first impressions.
by duiker101 8y ago
Your title wasn't really great honestly, unfortunately this community is often based first impressions.
- quickthrower2 8y agoOr more bluntly: click bait wins. Now you don’t get away with taboola style headlines here, they have to be more sophisticated, but they need to grab interest.
- Angostura 8y agoClear headlines that put the most salient information in the headline are not clickbait. The headline on this post is not clickbait.
- duiker101 8y agoClick bait is an unfortunate reality but I think it's possible to create decent titles that are not just misleading. Personally I think this OP might even be a bit too much, but milankragujevic's was plain confusing.
- tomtomtom777 8y agoIn this case, it's not click bait that is winning. > Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server isn't click bait, but simply much more clear and to the point than > Ask HN: HMD Global (Nokia) is acting shady Any recourse?
- 0815test 8y ago"You won't BELIEVE what these Nokia phones are sending to China! Read the Secret we Found Out."
- ahakki 8y agoI got most of my karma through «clickbait» stuff. If you manage to post something like the Apple annual report, you can get a million free points basically. You just gotta be quick.