> > Myth: You need to make your posts appeal to people's emotions, i.e., make them ragebait or similar. > Those four posts are my highest traffic posts on HN,

> > Myth: You need to make your posts appeal to people's emotions, i.e., make them ragebait or similar. > Those four posts are my highest traffic posts on HN, and they were all level-headed posts. I think the examples you've linked, it's the topic rather than the reasoning that's going to incite emotions; especially if your take is contrarian, not mainstream, or discussing unresolved problems.