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It seems to me that the same thing that happened to Reddit is happening to Hacker News now. I've seen an uptick of misleading titles, which make you question w
by cung 6y ago
It seems to me that the same thing that happened to Reddit is happening to Hacker News now.
I've seen an uptick of misleading titles, which make you question what is real.
Another trend I've noticed is an increase in pro-drug/pro-medication posts, which aim to frame life's challenges as something that need medication.
- stingraycharles 6y agoThis is honestly not something I can relate to. HN has always had a policy of using titles of the articles themselves, and apart from a small subset of them being editorialized by the mods (typically because they’re misleading!), this is still the case. And I haven’t seen a noticeable uptake in pro-drug/pro-medication posts compared to, say, a decade ago, and frankly I don’t understand how that has anything to do with this.
- toyg 6y agoParent poster might be reacting to the last few days, which really did have an uncharacteristically high number of very busy threads about psychiatric medication. Hopefully it’s just one of those “phases” HN goes through week-in week-out.