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Comment by timdaub | Hacker News Reader

Just exemplary, the #4 on HN right now is "A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?" This is a fairly normal occurrence and nobody would dare to moderate it. But it is clearly super clickbait (of a nothing burger).

Edit:

#13 Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

is a total dramatification and uses the exact same tactics as I, which is making react js devs re-consider their belief belonging behavior.

#19 Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k

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-- not sure you understand what clickbate is - "Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading." - all the titles you provide - tell what the article is going to be about to some degree or another - granted some better than others - your title tells me nothing useful at all - it's pure clickbate - it is not a good title --

everything is clickbait if every headline was entirely milquetoast, nobody would know where to click anymore.

reuters.com: "Adani abandons $2.5 billion share sale in big blow to Indian tycoon"

Do you think it is necessary to mention "2.5 billion" "abandon" and "big blow" "tycoon". It is all clickbait everything. Without a good CTR, nothing gets read.

-- imo HN is trying to be better than that - you been here since 2015 - find it hard to believe you didnt pick up the ethos --

#13 Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) in your language would be #13 Virtual DOM is mad (2018)

#13 Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) is a dramatization. It says everyone using the virtual DOM is stupid for not optimizing their code and still using react. As someone with a lot of equity in react, it is shocking because it invokes a feeling of surprise: "Wow, I must be doing something wrong". The adjective "pure" is overhead. It adds drama, nothing else.

Their product doesn't use a virtual dom, i.e. to them it IS pure overhead. I agree with you that it is provocative, but it takes a position on a specific thing in the title, not just "Millions of people are stupid"

I don't want to see a bunch of titles that say "The react crowd is mad" which could have been the title

Edit: Reading your other posts here, it seems you can't/won't engage in the difference here.

I didn't intend to insult the AI crowd as in "Millions of people are stupid." (as in e.g. "you, ML engineer are stupid"! I did NOT intend that). But in a stampede or a market mania people don't get hurt because of the individual's stupidity. They get hurt because of herd behavior, and it's tragic. But that's a group dynamic and isn't insulting people individually.

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