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I am not the one you answered, but the title DID put me off, and therefore I didn't read the article (and I probably won't read it, even if it is good).

I loathe the tendency to pack emotion and opinion into everything, and exaggerate everything, just because people think they'll get readers that way. Please don't.

Folks generally click baity articles more, but are unhappy about the fact they were baited into clicking a low quality article. It's a dilemma - do you want people to be happy or do you want more readers?

Feedback on the article - haven't you chosen a pathological case of a single click triggering 20 API calls that don't depend on each other? Wouldn't it be simpler to batch these calls on the server?

It wasn't a criticism against you specifically, I meant that it's just pathetic that using titles like "X should die" is the only way to get people's attention these days, I know how hard it is to make people pay attention on the internet and it's just sad that provoking them is the only way to do it