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> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." Then the clickbait worked
by ffsm8 3y ago
> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Then the clickbait worked on you. If the answer wasn't no, the writer would have made it into a statement, as that's gonna drive even more click through/reads.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoExcept that, as the author of TFA, I would say that the answer is closer to "yes" than it is to "no" ... I don't write for traffic, I make a living from writing software.
- ffsm8 3y agoI'm sorry if you felt insulted from my comment, that wasn't my intention at all. From my perspective, it's pretty much a complete "no", because you've contextualized the term "open source" to mean something different to what the reader initially thought of at the time of reading the headline. Furthermore: a question as the headline will always be a clickbait, as readers will always want to have it answered. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that this was blogspam. It's something you've clearly thought about before putting it in writing and it's well reasoned.