Comment by sho_hn
2 months ago
I absolutely understand the sentiment, but LWN is a second-to-none publication that on this rare occasion couldn't resist the joke, and also largely plays to an audience who will immediately understand that it's tongue-in-cheek.
Speaking as a subscriber of about two decades who perhaps wouldn't have a career without the enormous amount of high-quality education provided by LWN content, or at least a far lesser one: Let's forgive.
He didn't intend it as a joke and his intent matches the op's title revision request: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049840/
> on this rare occasion couldn't resist the joke
It was unintentional as per author
> Ouch. That is what I get for pushing something out during a meeting, I guess. That was not my point; the experiment is done, and it was a success. I meant no more than that.
The “Ouch.” was in reference to being compared to Phoronix.
Has anyone found them to be inaccurate, or fluffy to the point it degraded the content?
I haven’t - but then again, probably predominantly reading the best posts being shared on aggregators.
I don't know about the "ouch" but the rest of the comment seems pretty clear that they didn't intend to imply the clickbait.
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Nah I used to read Phoronix and the articles are a bit clickbaity sometimes but mostly it's fine. The real issue is the reader comments. They're absolute trash.
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Fair. But there’s even an additional difference between snarky clickbait and “giving the exact opposite impression of the truth in a headline” ;)
Hacker news generally removes Clickbait titles regardless of the provenance