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What's the law for someone always mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines when a headline is posed as a question on Hacker News?

"I wanna sound smart without too much effort" law of comments.

Ahem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893

How about this one:

Any time a commenter cries ad hominem, there will be a sub-thread arguing about the definition of ad hominem.

I came to this comments page just to check if quarterto's law was still holding up :)

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

I had to look it up, so this might save some others the trouble.

I would like to analyze the comment threads of all the submissions ending with question marks and see in how many Betteridge is referred to. I would guess it's close to 100%.

This was a particular bad reference since the title was very rhetorical and not meant to be taken literally.

Yes. Thats why I rarely click on such titles.

> Obviously, this isn't exactly the reinvention of the Web, but Famo.us has pushed JavaScript in a novel direction

At at least they admit its just hyperbole... right?

My instant thought too