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Deliberate provocation via your self admitted “spicy” title is against the rules. Yet somehow you are a victim, throwing a tantrum on a public forum and polluting an otherwise coherent front page.

Quit insulting your readers intelligence with clickbait titles, or push your blogspam somewhere else please. Your sense of entitlement is astonishing.

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If you'd understand anything about publishing texts on the internet, you would not make this argument. A text is worth nothing without an optimized CTR preview. You can spend an entire year writing a text and making it beautiful to all the idealism that you're projecting into HN's content moderation. No single person would read it without an enticing title. Get on my level and then tell me again what I'm doing wrong.

I am absolutely no expert in publishing. I have not claimed to be such! I am attempting to point out a blind spot you seem to be missing w/r/t a website acting within their moderation guidelines.

There is nothing stopping you from sharing your cruft (and bait titles) on other platforms. If you want to share it here, play by the rules or take your precious text elsewhere.

Your casual appeal to (your own) authority is juvenile. Not surprised this is your first 15 minutes of fame. Let us all hope it is the last.

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