For the past year at least, it's become tiring for me to even read the headlines for these kinds of articles. I've become more and more cynical as people pump out yet another logical fallacy themed blog post whose headline is carefully crafted to prompt me to get just emotional enough to click on it.

I read Hacker News out of habit now, but it's not nearly as enjoyable as it once was. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but I remember the intellectual stimulation of scouring the web for great blog posts around 2002-2004. You know, before people worried about ensuring the content was search-engine optimized, or if they'd be able to sustain the Slashdot (or I suppose Digg/Reddit) effect. There was something special there and people seem to have lost it as they rushed to implement Google Analytics and ensure that their readership kept growing.