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Thank you for changing the name of the title. The default title is clickbait which I find very surprising given this is a tech post and IMO the audience for suc

• EdwardDiego 11y ago
  It's a parody of clickbait.
  • pixelmonkey 11y ago
    OP here. Indeed, it is a parody of click bait, although in retrospect I think I should have avoided it. Parse.ly's customers are media companies so we deal with news / media / headlines all the time, so we were being cute in referencing this practice in the article. I used the headlines as a mechanism to break up the prose, too, and add some levity, since this article weighs in at over 4,000 words. But I underestimated the ability of techies to scan the headline and paragraph one of an article and say, "not worth my time" and bounce instinctively. In fact, when I tried to submit this post to r/programming, the moderators instantly deleted it, referencing the headline, despite it being a parody. One thing I shouldn't be surprised by: The Internet adapts!