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Don't take this personally, but can people please stop mentioning "Betteridge's Law"? Somebody mentions it every single time a headline ends in a question mark
by jlarocco 14y ago
Don't take this personally, but can people please stop mentioning "Betteridge's Law"?
Somebody mentions it every single time a headline ends in a question mark, and it's not witty, clever, or funny any more. It's just annoying at this point. That style of headline isn't going away, and at this point everybody knows about "Betteridge's Law".
- gpvos 14y agoActually, I didn't, and I found the comment entertaining. But I can see how it gets annoying after a few times.
- jarek 14y agoFor those of us without flag powers, mentioning the adage is the most we can do about titles like these on HN. Of course I could just stop reading the HN front page, but that seems a rather null solution.
- anigbrowl 14y agoLeave better comments, then flag with abandon.
- wccrawford 14y agoI've got flag powers, but I've basically given up. People have decided to upvote things that aren't relevant to this site, and by the time I see them, it's too late. And reading the 'new' feed is even more discouraging. I can't deal with the constant flood of garbage that obviously wasn't interesting or relevant, just to find a few tiny morsels.
- tptacek 14y agoDon't give up! Flag, and comment (briefly) about why. It's been my experience that lots of storied that I believed were long past flaggable (80-90 upvotes) have been killed sometime after I flagged them. Even if your flag doesn't kill the story, the conversation about why you flagged it will be valuable --- at the very least, more valuable than the off-topic story.