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Did you drop that ";-)" from the title because you want to showcase how few people actually read articles posted on HN and just respond to titles. Or did you no
by creesch 1y ago
Did you drop that ";-)" from the title because you want to showcase how few people actually read articles posted on HN and just respond to titles. Or did you not read further yourself and didn't even notice it? :P
- rednafi 1y agoYeah I dropped it thinking HN might not allow it :)
- creesch 1y agoOef, well that is surely going to influence how people interact (or skip) the article.
- throwaway314155 1y agoProbably got automatically trimmed off by HN's title-fixer thing.
- creesch 1y agoEither way, it removes an important bit of context. Without the it, it seems exactly like one of those over the top hyped claims the article is critical about. It's going to be interesting what sort of comments this will draw in then.
- keybored 1y ago> because you want to showcase how few people actually read articles posted on HN and just respond to titles. Making a misleading title in order to bait responses would be clickbait. People responding to a title that assertively states something is not some amazing gotcha. Although in this case it must be what the sibling comment said about HN stripping the smiley.
- Kiro 1y agoI think the article is way more bullish on AI than what the ";-)" and you imply.
- creesch 1y agoThe smiley very much implies that the title shouldn't be taken seriously. I'd say it is right on the mark. To be clear, bullish has a few meanings. But they all boil down to assertively communicating. From your comment I gather you might think it's etymology traces back to "bullying", but it actual relates back to "bull".
- Kiro 1y agoI'm talking about "bullish" as in "optimistic about something's or someone's prospects" so literally the opposite of what you think I meant. In other words, the article is more optimistic about AI than the smiley implies.