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Betteridge's Law of Headlines should really be referenced more often with clickbaity titles like this.
by delecti 12y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines should really be referenced more often with clickbaity titles like this.
- twoodfin 12y agoI wish either the title requirements or HN users with sufficient karma could allow/add a @SavedYouAClick-style tag to these stories that would list on the front page ("Will the Ebola Virus Go Airborne? [Probably Not]"), rather than having the Betteridge's Law of Headlines discussion in every such thread.
- delecti 12y agoAgreed, that would be even better still.
- danielweber 12y agoSomeone was collecting all the times it got references on HN. It was useful the first few times, after that it became a race to see who could post "FRIST", er, "BETTERIDGE" in each comment section.
- nether 12y agoReally? It's a pretty standard HN circlejerk to mention it. That and correlation vs causation, and "submarine" articles. I think Betteridge's Law is mentioned more than enough, considering how often it fails.