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Surely you have read the guidlines before posting, right? > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mention
by ascar 6y ago
Surely you have read the guidlines before posting, right?
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The hackernews title and the article title say "the". Critizing this clickbait is more than warranted.
- sbarre 6y agoFair point, I could have worded it better. But I think it's a reach to call this "clickbait". Article titles are shortened all the time, and you can't expect them to have all the context in the title. However, one should reasonably expect people participating in a discussion about an article (particularly when posting criticism) to have actually read it. Complaining about something that is provably false in the first sentence of the article is the bigger sin here, is it not?