[H8crilA]

Don't know if you've ever tried to submit links here, but it's kind of random whether your submission gets to the front page or not. I believe the click-baitniness of the title has a lot to do with "success" there. You can see a similar effect on YouTube, a lot of videos have really click-baity titles even if the video itself is high quality.

[cratermoon]

100% it's the click-baity aspects of the title. Just like reddit, or anywhere, there's enough people who see the title and upvote without reading it, if the title is appealing enough.

Source: I submitted an article with a direct quote from the abstract as the title. It gained a lot of interest before the title was changed to word salad of the original. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400659