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Just to confirm, "this one" in your comment refers to the original article's title being "really bad"? (As opposed to the editorialized title.)
by cbhl 7y ago
Just to confirm, "this one" in your comment refers to the original article's title being "really bad"? (As opposed to the editorialized title.)
- eindiran 7y agoI think "this one" refers to the original article's title being really bad: "Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'"
- Wohlf 7y agoWow, glad they changed it, that is cringe inducing bad.
- toby- 7y agoIt's The Register. They're known for 'silly' headlines; it's their gimmick.
- freehunter 7y agoI'm kind of glad the Slashdot/Fark/Register era of Internet headlines seems to be over. Headlines trying to be funny rarely ever are.
- Udik 7y agoLet's talk about how immoral it is to write headlines designed to spark controversy and outrage. Those who do so are disrupting our collective ability to discuss rationally about things- and they do it for profit- all the while posing as guardians of morality.
- GordonS 7y agoThe Register's headlines have always been tongue in cheek, a dig at tabloids if anything. Not sure where you are from, but maybe this kind of humour doesn't translate well to the US?
- Udik 7y agoI'm sorry, I don't know the Register, so I might be misinterpreting the headline. And I see that many others on their homepage are similarly exaggerated. However, unfortunately at this point I'm so used to headlines misrepresenting basic facts or taking quotes out of context to sell a political point or generate controversy, that the headline seemed perfectly plausible- my general point still stands, even if it doesn't apply to this particular case.
- GordonS 7y agoI can understand that if you're not familiar with them, but The Register literally predates click-bait - they've been doing satirical headlines for decades.
- louthy 7y agoTheRegister really is the gutter press of the tech world.
- dang 7y agoI've come to believe that it's a bit more subtle than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275051
- falcolas 7y agoYes, exactly this.
- drewm1980 7y agoWow, finally read the site guidelines. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I always wondered why even the world's most important news events barely register on HN!
- kazinator 7y agoBecause you can turn on your TV or go to a regular news site. Hacker News is for subject matter that you would definitely not see in the regular. Can you imagine? CNN newsflash: "Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham proposes new Lisp dialect."
- solveit 7y agoI felt a sudden sense of longing and felt incredibly sad, as if I had forgotten something, something that had been precious to me.
- midnighttoker 7y agoAre they wrong? Maybe it's around here already, but I'd like to hear the CEO actually state how the title is inaccurate.