Hacker News Reader

I'll give you a pity upvote.

It's not sense of humor that's penalized, though. It's comments without content. (Generally.)

Thanks. I've learnt the lesson now. I can understand why that's a good rule.

Am I the only one who thinks these titles are too often unoriginal, suggestive and often conclusive? And sometimes the conclusions in the title are not even supported in the article.

It's not just HN. It's everywhere on the web.

I just don't get it.

You aren't the only one, but that's a harder problem to solve as I there are a limited number of mods and people understandably want their posts read. The public high humor bar and one or two post commentary seem to work well for keeping HN only half way over the shark. I upvoted you to make up for it.

It's called link bait.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com