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That's true, but there are conflicting rules here because HN also considers "your" in titles to be clickbait: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&pref
by mtlynch 3y ago
That's true, but there are conflicting rules here because HN also considers "your" in titles to be clickbait:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20headline%20you%20wired&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- charles_f 3y agoYou're editorializing that! Dang said "you" as in the interpelation (hey you!)
- mtlynch 3y agoNo, "your," too: I also took out "your". That's a standard moderation trick since second-person pronouns in titles tend also to be clickbait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937739
- Lockal 3y agoIn this case it is not a clickbait. It is explained in the article. Note other comment in discussion here: "Spare me the paragraphs of 'how did we get here' history and get to the point...". The author of the article directly places the blame not on the corporations, but on the reader (developers) who turns away from the inconvenient truth. The truth is so inconvenient, that commenters are trying to editoralize the content by removing the history part. There are a lot of fresh arrivals in IT now. These people don't know that the industry has already experienced several waves of chatbots, and these waves have brought nothing but annoyance. The current wave is no different from the previous waves. Removing the word "you" changes the audience of the article to consumers of chatbots, but the initial article is aimed at their creators.