The only people who care about complaints about "link-baiting" - as opposed to genuinely deceptive - original titles are the ones who make such complaints. For everyone else, it's pointless, self-righteous whining to skim over. It's, to continue the little theme here, posting masturbation.

This is why this is the only response you're getting from me on this thread, and why I always, always vote down any such valueless whinging about what some blogger titled eir post.

With all due respect, it sounds like you do not understand or appreciate what has made HN a higher calibre community than Reddit or other similar sites. As if that's not enough, you actively sabotage those who do, and then have the audacity to accuse these persons of "whining" and "masturbation." Methinks thou dost protest too much.