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I had just wanted to document the moment and thought it was kind of funny to do sort of the anti-Upworthy headline.

Because it's their blog, not yours, and because a blog isn't a newspaper article?

It seems like HN has a ton of uselessly vague titles. I don't know if I should ignore them or click on all of them to find out what they are.

It's because the powers-that-be decided, in their infinite wisdom, that any modification of a link's title is "editorializing". Thus we get ridiculous stuff like this, instead of something more illuminating.

Official post: "Why we revert to original titles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 (414 points, by pg, 127 days ago, 220 comments)

I agree that too much editorializing is bad, but textual titles are also bad. In the last weeks I feel that the rules had been relaxed a little, but I haven't done any systematic measurement.

The post was on a blog, not a news article and nonsensical titles are commonplace. And the submitter followed the HN guidelines of using the same title of the post.

Titles are required for nearly all blogging software.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rhetorical+question