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Re:How this Ends by paulcole on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:19PM (#26174255)
Are you sure they want you to read their article? Cryptic titles get shared on HN and get clicked. Enough people read them, so do they really care if you read it?
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Re:How this Ends by cutler on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:31PM (#26174754)
Even if you end-up reading the article you do so in a state of annoyance which is usually does not help the author's cause.
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Re:How this Ends by paulcole on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:44PM (#26174841)
“You” doesn’t equate to everyone.
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Re:How this Ends by cutler on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:18PM (#26175172)
"You" as in a less formal version of "one".
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Re:How this Ends by paulcole on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:12AM (#26178930)
Except everyone isn’t annoyed by cryptic titles. More people are (at worst) neutral to them than are put off by them.

The reaction of one rando to a cryptic title doesn’t particularly matter. The publication is appealing to their audience (as a whole) not to me (or “you”).

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