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Yes, but the poster used the actual title of the article, which is the norm. This time the title was deliberately sarcastic, but that was not yarapavans fault.
by timwiseman 17y ago
Yes, but the poster used the actual title of the article, which is the norm. This time the title was deliberately sarcastic, but that was not yarapavans fault.
And it was a good and interesting article, just of much less significance than it appears on a non-sarcastic reading of the title.
- jacquesm 17y agoI'm all for descriptive titles. If a title is linkbait, even if it is 'original' then I'd prefer it if people edited the title to make it more reflective of the content than to 'blindly' keep the original title. Otherwise sites that use linkbait titles would get a whole pile more visitors from HN because of the 'originality' of the titles.
- timwiseman 17y agoYou do have a good point, but I do not think either ArsTechnica or the poster here was intentionally setting up linkbait. Viewing the title on their front page (where they italicize key words and include a slightly longer blurb) it is clearly being ironic, and I think the poster was just following the tradition here of using the original tighter.