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rocketbop on Nov 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor?

I find headlines that ask a question very grating.

akx on Nov 19, 2015 [–]

See Betteridge's law of headlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines

Kiro on Nov 19, 2015 | [–]

Hacker News's law of Betteridge's law is even more accurate:

"Any submission that ends in a question mark will contain at least one comment referring to Betteridge's law."

akx on Nov 20, 2015 | | [–]

Ha. I suppose there's a meta-law for referring to this law, too.

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