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That's a pretty low bar to call something click bait. It's not click bait just because you disagree with the content. Edit: and I think the title matched the content fairly ok?

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It is clickbait, by definition. The title baited with a promise of one type of content, the click yielded a different type of content.

Ah, no, the article is about what it says in the title...

Are you referring to the slightly edited title someboty has put here at HN? But still, no dissonance with the content

An article with a deceptive title and lacking substance is textbook clickbait.

The title is "The Worst Outcome is a Mediocre Success" and that's what this is about. How is this deceptive? The "substance" part might be debatable. I personally don't think every post has to go in-depth on everything. I enjoyed his nugget of insight.

It's deceptive because the title is being used in a way that you would not guess without reading the article and suggests highly that it is referring to something completely different. "Mediocre success" is not a synonym for "ambiguous result" and in context most would assume it is referring to financial success.

The updated title is much better.

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