[tokenadult]

I recall that "Betteridge's Law," which I see from the Wikipedia citations is a new and not particularly widespread idea, was promoted here in the Hacker News community by the site founder and former chief site curator, pg (Paul Graham). While I will agree with the proposition that many articles titled with a yes/no question invite the easy answer no, I don't think that is an invariant property of all such articles. I think it's too cheap and easy on the part of the learned readers here to simply invoke "Betteridge's Law" without reading an article deeply and grappling with more of the article's argument than the article's headline. (That's especially true because sometimes headlines are chosen by editors of a publication, while the text of the article is chosen by the article's author.) I've already indicated that I am not sure I should accept the argument of this article (which brings up issues that are already familiar to me from other reading), but I also am very sure that we shouldn't dismiss every article submitted here with a yes/no question in its title before we read the fine article.

[RankingMember]

I think it's more of a joke "law" meant to discourage lazy click-bait headline-writing.