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Click-Bait title, and judging by comments here everyone went for the click-bait. The author doesn't actually use factorio for interviewing, and thinks it world

Click-Bait title, and judging by comments here everyone went for the click-bait. The author doesn't actually use factorio for interviewing, and thinks it world be a bad idea to do so. A more accurate title would be "Comparison between Factorio and Software Engineering Concepts" - but that wouldn't have gotten it to the top of HN so fast, nor gotten so many comments so quickly.

neogodless 6y ago
I believe we may be at a point where it is understood that headlines are created with the goal of attracting readers to the article, and it may no longer be necessary to point this out for each article we come across.
- UncleMeat 6y ago
  That's not even the case. The point of headlines is to attract readers to the comment section on facebook, reddit, twitter, HN, etc. Some small percentage of people who have become engaged in the discussion seeded by the title then click through and provide a bit of ad revenue.
- ouid 6y ago
  I'll stop when I'm dead.
- enumjorge 6y ago
  What’s the limit? What if I write an article with a title like “Breaking: Google to deprecate its search engine, will get into selling beanie babies instead” but in reality the article is about the many different types of mayonnaise one can buy? I think it’s reasonable to expect the title to somewhat reflect the content of the article.
- Sodman 6y ago
  There's a difference between editorializing a headline vs having an article titled "X is the best", where the content is literally "Well X obviously isn't the best, that would be ridiculous. Also we have no idea what the best is."
- wccrawford 6y ago
  When the headline is so obviously clickbait, it's probably more interesting than the actual article... And the comments here are likely more interesting as well, just based on the title. So I no longer worry about people who haven't read the article. I just enjoy the discussions.
- dang 6y ago
  It's their job to sex up the headline and ours to deflate it to size. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22sex%20up%22&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I've replaced the title with representative language from the article body. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=representative%20title%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=true&sor...

neogodless 6y ago

I believe we may be at a point where it is understood that headlines are created with the goal of attracting readers to the article, and it may no longer be necessary to point this out for each article we come across.

UncleMeat 6y ago
That's not even the case. The point of headlines is to attract readers to the comment section on facebook, reddit, twitter, HN, etc. Some small percentage of people who have become engaged in the discussion seeded by the title then click through and provide a bit of ad revenue.
ouid 6y ago
I'll stop when I'm dead.
enumjorge 6y ago
What’s the limit? What if I write an article with a title like “Breaking: Google to deprecate its search engine, will get into selling beanie babies instead” but in reality the article is about the many different types of mayonnaise one can buy? I think it’s reasonable to expect the title to somewhat reflect the content of the article.
Sodman 6y ago
There's a difference between editorializing a headline vs having an article titled "X is the best", where the content is literally "Well X obviously isn't the best, that would be ridiculous. Also we have no idea what the best is."
wccrawford 6y ago
When the headline is so obviously clickbait, it's probably more interesting than the actual article... And the comments here are likely more interesting as well, just based on the title. So I no longer worry about people who haven't read the article. I just enjoy the discussions.
dang 6y ago
It's their job to sex up the headline and ours to deflate it to size. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22sex%20up%22&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I've replaced the title with representative language from the article body. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=representative%20title%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=true&sor...