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It's not a false positive though. The headline is designed to grab your attention by manipulating your curiosity. How did they fare? I prefer that headlines lik
by jetrink 3y ago
It's not a false positive though. The headline is designed to grab your attention by manipulating your curiosity. How did they fare? I prefer that headlines like this are penalized.
- happytoexplain 3y agoThe headline is not being penalized. I am being penalized, by being forced to read the headline three times thinking "what the fuck?" before clicking through and realizing what happened.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoWell headlines don't have feelings, and certainly someone has to suffer for distasteful prompts. Unfortunately, it looks like you are the next best thing. /s
- hotnfresh 3y agoThe trouble is that 1) bad headlines that ask a question rather than provide information are so normalized that they appear everywhere now, so lots of titles are like that, 2) Auto-removing “how” addresses only some of those, and rarely well, and 3) When it doesn’t just fail to fix the problem but also mangles the headline, it generates discussion like this one we’re having now, and I think there’s a strong argument to be made that this is worse than letting the headline start with “how”. And yeah, submitters may be able to fix the headline when submitting the link. The problem is they in-fact do not, pretty often.
- wyldfire 3y agoIt's not even a question, it's a statement. Or a sentence fragment approaching a statement.
- hotnfresh 3y agoOr a question eliding “did”/“have” (and the question mark). But yeah, fair point, it’s more a fragment implying a question than a question.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIt does doesn't even imply a question, it simply states the contents e.g. "How bicycles work" or "How to tie your shoes".