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Title submission guidelines? The "8" should be removed, for: "Companies that nail Customer Service" I'm guessing that's why you were bumped from page one so
by klochner 14y ago
Title submission guidelines? The "8" should be removed, for:
"Companies that nail Customer Service"
I'm guessing that's why you were bumped from page one so quickly.
- ojiikun 14y agoDoes anyone have any insight about the basis for this rule? Most of the guidelines seem pretty understandable, but this looks very arbitrary to a non-veteran.
- klochner 14y agoHN disapproves of linkbait, the subject should stand on it's own without sensationalism. http://www.blueglass.com/blog/how-to-compose-a-compelling-linkbait-title/ http://www.blueglass.com/blog/how-to-compose-a-compelling-li...
- ojiikun 14y agoThat article is refusing to load for me, but I found a cache and the answer we're looking for is: "numerals at the beginning of an article are one possible heuristic to identify linkbait, as top-N or list-style writing are a common approach to such articles". And now that I've seen that heuristic, I can't help but chuckle that many, many articles on TechCrunch seem to be list-style. :)