>I still have no idea what the title is about. The “clickbaitiness” of HN posts The post's title isn't clickbait. It's a wording style that simply has many a

>I still have no idea what the title is about. The “clickbaitiness” of HN posts The post's title isn't clickbait. It's a wording style that simply has many auxiliary verbs and grammar articles removed.[1] Anyway, the same sentence with extra helper words in [] may help in parsing it: "[The company called] Gated [has a junk email filtering service that issues] challenges [to] unknown senders [by forcing them] to donate to charity in order to reach you"* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style#Headline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style#Headline