[timmyelliot]

Because of that title alone, I won't click.

Yeah, I'm probably being shallow, but I take it as a challenge to my personal illusion that I'm not easily manipulated.

[CrankyPants]

You know, he's not being entirely unreasonable.

When one considers that publications have people whose job it is to try to write link-baity titles, it doesn't always make sense for HN submissions to use the article's title.

Consider: it's not infrequent that writers loathe the cotton-candy bait their articles are given.

[floydenstein]

Unless that was their plan all along, in which case, you fell for it.

[ianstallings]

In poker, we call that leveling. Damn it! Now I have to read it. I won't go through life knowing someone failed to coerce me.

[mistercow]

"Harry, smiling, had asked Professor Quirrell what level he played at, and Professor Quirrell, also smiling, had responded, One level higher than you."

[shire]

You're not even curious to click it?

[donpdonp]

As soon as the title enters the 'one weird trick' zone, which this title does, the link gets ignored. Though I did bother to read the hackernews comments about the story :).