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Since when did researchers decide to start titling their papers like clickbait YouTube videos? The “Stop doing [conventional thing]!” title formula is, for wha
by joshdavham 2y ago
Since when did researchers decide to start titling their papers like clickbait YouTube videos?
The “Stop doing [conventional thing]!” title formula is, for whatever reason, the title that I always find the most annoying.
- teraflop 2y agoIt's nothing new. See, for instance, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful", published by Dijkstra in 1968.
- vacuity 2y agoThough that name came from Wirth as editor. The original name ("A Case against the GO TO Statement") is somewhat less inflammatory.
- cozzyd 2y agoStop doing is all you need.
- nurettin 2y agoIt didn't grief me as much. Just scroll to the conclusion.
- cttet 2y agoSince a long time ago, and I found a trend that in more theoretical fields, the more 'clickbaity' the titles are, e.g. TCS, machine learning theory, etc.