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A comment on A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers. Parent comment

Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio... by s1k3b8 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:38PM (#21739986)
> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives"

In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false hope of a better life elsewhere.

I don't think people who read the headline came away with a positive view of Ant's $7 Credit Limit.

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Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio... by yorwba on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:03AM (#21741300)
Do you think the headlines below leave the reader with a negative impression?

"FedEx lures sellers with two-day air shipping after Amazon contract ends"

"Cloudflare goes big on serverless with new CLI, lures devs with free tier"

"Shopping for nostalgia: Toys R Us lures Michigan fans to Canada"

"A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth"

"North of Netherlands Lures Elon Musk with Billboards"

Is two-day air shipping bad for sellers? Is signing up for Cloudflare's free tier a mistake? Is Canada a dangerous country full of toys and geologist-swallowing caves? Will visiting the north of the Netherlands be the end of Elon Musk?

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