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"Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" and most past headlines using the word don't attach any particular connotation: https://hn.algolia.com

by yorwba 7y ago

"Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" and most past headlines using the word don't attach any particular connotation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=lures&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (including when it refers to SV companies)

humaniania 7y ago
I think that it is interesting how from a fishing perspective a lure is also a trap in one sense.
- TomMarius 7y ago
  Is it? A lure is what gets you to the trap, as I understand it (not a native speaker so I might be bringing that over from my native language)
  - austhrow743 7y ago
    A lure is a fake fish/bug/food with hooks on it. It's designed to make fish want to bite it and then the hooks dig in to them. Trapping them.
TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
Probably just headlinese, like these words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese#Commonly_used_short_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese#Commonly_used_short...
s1k3b8 7y ago
> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false hope of a better life elsewhere. I don't think people who read the headline came away with a positive view of Ant's $7 Credit Limit.
- yorwba 7y ago
  Do you think the headlines below leave the reader with a negative impression? "FedEx lures sellers with two-day air shipping after Amazon contract ends" "Cloudflare goes big on serverless with new CLI, lures devs with free tier" "Shopping for nostalgia: Toys R Us lures Michigan fans to Canada" "A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth" "North of Netherlands Lures Elon Musk with Billboards" Is two-day air shipping bad for sellers? Is signing up for Cloudflare's free tier a mistake? Is Canada a dangerous country full of toys and geologist-swallowing caves? Will visiting the north of the Netherlands be the end of Elon Musk?

by yorwba 7y ago

humaniania 7y ago

I think that it is interesting how from a fishing perspective a lure is also a trap in one sense.

TomMarius 7y ago
Is it? A lure is what gets you to the trap, as I understand it (not a native speaker so I might be bringing that over from my native language)
- austhrow743 7y ago
  A lure is a fake fish/bug/food with hooks on it. It's designed to make fish want to bite it and then the hooks dig in to them. Trapping them.

TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago

Probably just headlinese, like these words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese#Commonly_used_short_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese#Commonly_used_short...

s1k3b8 7y ago

> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false hope of a better life elsewhere. I don't think people who read the headline came away with a positive view of Ant's $7 Credit Limit.

yorwba 7y ago
Do you think the headlines below leave the reader with a negative impression? "FedEx lures sellers with two-day air shipping after Amazon contract ends" "Cloudflare goes big on serverless with new CLI, lures devs with free tier" "Shopping for nostalgia: Toys R Us lures Michigan fans to Canada" "A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth" "North of Netherlands Lures Elon Musk with Billboards" Is two-day air shipping bad for sellers? Is signing up for Cloudflare's free tier a mistake? Is Canada a dangerous country full of toys and geologist-swallowing caves? Will visiting the north of the Netherlands be the end of Elon Musk?