[untog]

As always with HN posts titled like this, the answer is "No."

[Cushman]

I'd support a change to auto-kill submissions that end with '?'. If you can't say it as a declarative statement, it's link-bait.

[_sh]

"If you can't say it as a declarative statement,"

  Social media use in Indonesia predicts Facebook's decline

"it's link-bait"

QED

[gruseom]

But this entire post was clearly an honest question. And a good one.