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Comment by angusgr | Hacker News Reader

The submitted title is pretty much linkbait for "Mark Zuckerberg sweats under lights during interview, gives company line on privacy"

Which seems to be nowhere near as exciting as either the HN submitter or the liveblogger ("could this be his Nixon moment?") think.

Did I miss something?

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I thought it was a pretty hilarious comment by the interviewer and thought it would make a good title for the article. I found the blog post interesting (and entertaining) to read. I agree that the Nixon reference was a little absurd.

Edit: They put up the clip from that scene. Zuckerberg is sweating his ass off.

http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100602/whats-under-mark-zuckbergs...

I read the guidelines again, and there's no rule against titles that don't give you any idea what the article is about. I think there should be. It's a big problem on Reddit.

To some extent, it seems that it's something the community can self-regulate against. Read it and don't think it was worthwhile? Don't upvote it.

I actually don't mind sensationalist linkbait titles like this, as long as what I'm clicking on is actually worth making a sensationalist linkbait title about. That's clearly 100% subjective, though.

The problem isn't sensationalism. It's that I don't know what the article is about. Why not put "Zuckcerburg: " before it, so that I and about half the people on this site instantly know not to waste any more time?

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