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Sidenote: If there's one thing I hate, it's when the headline tells me if "It's OK". It just screams soft propaganda to me.

• paganel 5y ago
  Glad I wasn't the only one bothered by that, it must be a recent(-ish) trend, I keep reading it more and more lately.
• throwaway2077 5y ago
  and that's a good thing, here's why
• samizdis 5y ago
  It grated on me, too, but I left the headline as it was out of some misplaced respect for Spectrum (which seems to have become more clickbaity since its redesign of a few months ago). However, given your comment and others supporting it, I've removed the offending bit.
• dang 5y ago
  Please don't pick the most provocative thing in a headline or article and then copy it into the threads to complain about it. The most provocative thing is nearly always something shallow and barely (if at all) related. This leads to shallow/indignant discussions, which are the opposite of what we're going for here. It's particularly important because shallow/indignant comments tend to get a lot of upvotes (this is the main weakness of the upvoting system), which means that they end up at the top of threads, choking out more interesting discussion. That's where this one was when I saw it; I've marked it off topic now. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22most%20provocative%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...