[sho_hn]

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.

[zengid]

He didn't intend it as a joke and his intent matches the op's title revision request: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049840/

[DrammBA]

> 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.

[DANmode]

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.

[stavros]

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.

[DANmode]

That’s correct!

That’s why I was chatting about the “Ouch.”

because it was the only part of the comment that didn’t make sense to me in isolation,

so I opened the context, what he was replying to.

[IshKebab]

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.

[JoshTriplett]

The comments section is the biggest problem, but also, in addition to clickbait, the site has a tendency to amplify and highlight anything that will produce drama, often creating a predictable tempest in a teapot.

[b33j0r]

Fair. But there’s even an additional difference between snarky clickbait and “giving the exact opposite impression of the truth in a headline” ;)

[nailer]

Hacker news generally removes Clickbait titles regardless of the provenance