Ask PG: Policy on Betteridge's Law of Headlines?
Can we have a community discussion regarding what policies (if any) that we should have in place to handle posts which are exemplar of Betteridge's Law of Headlines? They are a consistent source of flame wars and rarely result in constructive valuable commentary.
Journalist's obviously are not going to let go of such a powerful copywriting tactic since it gets them page views. I take this is a sign that it is the responsibility of communities such as ours to provide a correcting force by banning titles that are questions and are not "Ask HN:" posts. This would help mitigate the incentive journalists have since they would know they are losing audiences every time they get the urge to publish with such flame-war inducing tactics.