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Meta-comment: I am so over titles of the form "* considered harmful" when it has something to do with someone's opinion and IT/computing. Please just stop.

• sliverstorm 12y ago
  But how will you get clicks if you don't resort to ever-more-Buzzfeed-esque titles?
  • geekrax 12y ago
    Yeah, right? He should've just said "13 reasons why I will never use StackOverflow again."
    • cratermoon 12y ago
      Software Developers HATE This!
    • ericcumbee 12y ago
      better yet "I Tried to delete my StackOverFlow account. You won't believe what happened next"
    • jjoonathan 12y ago
      13 reasons why StackOverflow is considered harmful?
    • smoyer 12y ago
      I made the mistake of clicking one of those "13 reason ..." links the other day. Each of the thirteen reasons was split into 4 parts, so I had to navigate through 52 pages to read the entire article. I quit when I realized what they'd done (5th section). I'm not going to waste my time ... especially when your site is ad-laden and slow. The funny part is that this is probably a consequence of Adwords not allowing asynchronous ad updates on a page. They needed me to navigate through 52 pages to increase their impression counts. Very sad ... and now back to my regularly scheduled uBlock.
    • etjossem 12y ago
      You'll never believe number 10!
• SapphireSun 12y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... Seems applicable here given the interrogative mark.
• elnate 12y ago
  And -gate over trivialities.
  • smtucker 12y ago
    I like to call this "gategate"
• krazydad 12y ago
  Considered harmful... by this one person.
• cwyers 12y ago
  http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
• calvins 12y ago
  "Considered harmful" considered harmful ;-)