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Because of that title alone, I won't click. Yeah, I'm probably being shallow, but I take it as a challenge to my personal illusion that I'm not easily manipula
by timmyelliot 13y ago
Because of that title alone, I won't click.
Yeah, I'm probably being shallow, but I take it as a challenge to my personal illusion that I'm not easily manipulated.
- shire 13y agoYou're not even curious to click it?
- donpdonp 13y agoAs soon as the title enters the 'one weird trick' zone, which this title does, the link gets ignored. Though I did bother to read the hackernews comments about the story :).
- floydenstein 13y agoUnless that was their plan all along, in which case, you fell for it.
- ianstallings 13y agoIn poker, we call that leveling. Damn it! Now I have to read it. I won't go through life knowing someone failed to coerce me.
- mistercow 13y ago"Harry, smiling, had asked Professor Quirrell what level he played at, and Professor Quirrell, also smiling, had responded, One level higher than you."
- CrankyPants 13y agoYou know, he's not being entirely unreasonable. When one considers that publications have people whose job it is to try to write link-baity titles, it doesn't always make sense for HN submissions to use the article's title. Consider: it's not infrequent that writers loathe the cotton-candy bait their articles are given.