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I support this guy's cause, but I'm flagging the story. Nobody is being rendered. The Home Secretary told nobody to show up. Simply because I agree with a cau
by DanielBMarkham 14y ago
I support this guy's cause, but I'm flagging the story.
Nobody is being rendered. The Home Secretary told nobody to show up.
Simply because I agree with a cause doesn't mean I have to put up with lying in my headlines. Hyperbole is one thing, misstating the facts for a better headline is another.
I have nothing against Boing Boing. Seems like a great site and I visit quite a bit. Love the style. But over on HN if you start off a story with this much deception in the headline, there's just no way the ensuing conversation can be productive.
- bonaldi 14y agoGiven the number of stories here that get mod-edited to the source site headline almost immediately (even when that headline is meaningless) this is a lose-lose situation
- ColinWright 14y agoI've now gone and done a search. The source for all this is the story on V3. That was submitted a couple of hours ago and got no upvotes, no attention, no comments, and sank without trace: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193182 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193182 The more sensationalist headline (which I quoted unchanged) from a different article has got dozens of comments and dozens of upvotes. An audience will get what it deserves. Link-baity titles get attention, even (especially?) when inaccurate. With the constant re-submission of so many stories, it's now unsurprising that the hyperbolic, emotion-laden submissions are the ones that get rewarded.
- rmc 14y agoAn audience will get what it deserves. Which is why we need flagging and moderation to prevent our communities baser desires from turning this into the sort of place we don't want.