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There's a little bit of history in there too though, which I appreciated. The fact that the title of the linked article on Wikipedia is "Run Commands" could make the HN title seem clickbaity, but I would never have clicked on something that just said "Run Commands", and now I know something new.

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Wikipedia could also be safely considered as "not a clickbait site".

Yes but without the context it's a bit hard to know what's it talking about

Oh yeah? This Wikipedia page is pure clickbait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

Comes with a pretty amazing example as well: "7 Clickbait Advertisements You Won't Believe".

Yeah but just look at this article title!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_deaths

The purple prose!

Meaning the prose is literally purple, because you've obsessively clicked all the links?

> The fact that the title of the linked article on Wikipedia is "Run Commands" could make the HN title seem clickbaity, but I would never have clicked on something that just said "Run Commands" [...]

Wouldn't "the RC in .bashrc stands for Run Command" be alright?

Perhaps, but the interesting part for me was the historical background (small as it was). What I suppose I'm saying is that in this particular instance I didn't mind that I took the bait. A bit better than "Unix sysadmins don't want you to know this one weird trick!" or "You'll never believe what the RC in .bashrc stands for!" at least.

>Perhaps, but the interesting part for me was the historical background (small as it was). What I suppose I'm saying is that in this particular instance I didn't mind that I took the bait. A bit better than "Unix sysadmins don't want you to know this one weird trick!" or "You'll never believe what the RC in .bashrc stands for!" at least.

You're literally saying you're okay with clickbait removing four words and an exclamation point.

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