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angusgr
The submitted title is pretty much linkbait for "Mark Zuckerberg sweats under lights during interview, gives company line on privacy"

Which seems to be nowhere near as exciting as either the HN submitter or the liveblogger ("could this be his Nixon moment?") think.

Did I miss something?

memoryfault
I thought it was a pretty hilarious comment by the interviewer and thought it would make a good title for the article. I found the blog post interesting (and entertaining) to read. I agree that the Nixon reference was a little absurd.

Edit: They put up the clip from that scene. Zuckerberg is sweating his ass off.

http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100602/whats-under-mark-zuckbergs...

asdflkj
I read the guidelines again, and there's no rule against titles that don't give you any idea what the article is about. I think there should be. It's a big problem on Reddit.
angusgr
To some extent, it seems that it's something the community can self-regulate against. Read it and don't think it was worthwhile? Don't upvote it.

I actually don't mind sensationalist linkbait titles like this, as long as what I'm clicking on is actually worth making a sensationalist linkbait title about. That's clearly 100% subjective, though.

asdflkj
The problem isn't sensationalism. It's that I don't know what the article is about. Why not put "Zuckcerburg: " before it, so that I and about half the people on this site instantly know not to waste any more time?
jrockway
Feel free to downmod, but this article was so boring that I actually yelled at my web browser before I remembered that I could just make it go away.

The drawings of people in the sidebar was nice though. Ballmer and Jobs actually look like nice guys.

xavoy
I think it is totally unfair on the guy. Sure he has made some mistakes, but the people who put their private information online need to take some responsibility!

The interviewers were complaining about having to check over their privacy settings??? Please! This is the _INTERNET_.