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Here's my friendly reminder. If you only pay attention to linkbait headlines and vapid blog content, you're going to have a hard time finding well-written softw

• dfan 12y ago
  There is a fair amount of space between "something in the title of the release announcement to explain what makes this one special" and "linkbait headlines and vapid blog content".
• dredmorbius 12y ago
  ¿Por que no los dos? There's a space for both well-written content and well-written ledes. Gripping ledes with poor quality content are a letdown and tarnish your brand. I've null-routed numerous hosts for persisting in that practice simply so that I don't go there. Interesting content that's either poorly written or has bad ledes also suffers. I run across these all the fucking time, and to its detriment, the fact that Hacker News relies solely on the original content headline and not a bit of introductory text (Slashdot did and does a far better job in this regard, Reddit's link posts share the failure) makes this site susceptible to the problem. I'll generally click through to comments in search of context before going to the article itself. Jeff Atwood's got a recent excellent post on a related topic -- getting people to actually read linked articles and avoiding dysfunctional incentivization: http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-2/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-...