Ask HN: Were titles always formated as questions which are not really questions?

Or is it a recent phenomena? I am genuinely curious.

Questions like why your Start up will fail? to which my automatic reaction is to start answering, probably by saying I don't know, it might because of, or maybe. And if the non question question is something which I have no idea of, I still have to answer well I don't know, supposedly you are going to say why, so then why ask me?

It is quite annoying, but what I was more interested in knowing is if it is only me who thinks so and if it has been so always and somehow I have not noticed or if it is a recent phenomena.