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More and more I'm seeing headlines suffixed similar to the above "...and a lot of people aren't happy" or "...and people are upset" and it just seems to me like
by jonathanlydall 3y ago
More and more I'm seeing headlines suffixed similar to the above "...and a lot of people aren't happy" or "...and people are upset" and it just seems to me like shoddy work by article authors.
These kinds of headlines make me assume the article is not going to bother to give a balanced or researched analysis, but instead just talk about how people are feeling about things, without necessarily quantifying anything.
It's okay to have feelings or opinions, but that's generally pretty useless to other people without some rationalization or justification as to why you have them.
I would have been far more inclined to read an article with a headline like "Google updates its Maps to look more like Apple's at the expense of ease of use".
- eur0pa 3y agoNot everything needs to be a peer-reviewed research paper
- jonathanlydall 3y agoNo one said anything about peer review. If I went to my boss and I said “people are upset with our product”, he will bemoan me for providing un-actionable information. If I went to my boss and said “this is why people are unhappy with our product”, then I’m bringing him something potentially useful. My point is that I have no desire to read an article which from the headline seems to merely tell me “people are upset with something” as just about anything will upset someone. If your headline indicates you’ll at least attempt to tell me why people are upset with something, that might actually be interesting.
- hnlmorg 3y agoA lot of time I see those kinds of titles, it’s just a low quality article aimed at driving page impressions for minimal effort: - talk about the change in a way thats easy to casually observe - then link a few Tweets … - Profit This article might be better but I’m training myself not to open articles with such titles anymore.