&gt; <i>...disproportionately strong...</i><p>Emotion is great.  I want to understand other people&#x27;s emotions, which means titles should express them if they are present.  It&#x27;s for precisely that reason that I appreciate tamping down &quot;over the top&quot; linkbait, if that&#x27;s what this is.<p>Understanding others&#x27; emotions gets hard if everything is a life-threatening emergency†.  It&#x27;s like watching CNN during their worst years: every possible event got a &quot;BREAKING NEWS&quot; banner.  It made it hard to stratify emergencies.  If every title devolves into &quot;THE INTERNET IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE because git just went to v2.8&quot; HN would become useless to read.<p>† I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s what this article is doing, just making an example.