In order to read more like this you have to read the other 9 that are like that of the complaint--- more so now than when Ted Sturgeon coined his aphorism...[see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law]
Hacker News style seems to be more verbose than this content, either post your link with an non-sensational headline or post a comment asking the community to live to a certain standard. IE: you used a caption to illustrate your point while the target of the link has nothing to do with the caption. This feels like a reddit type post, which I do not prefer IE: "if you do this, I hate you".
It's not an "if you do this, I hate you" post, it's a "I'm sick and tired of Western media focusing on only the nuclear plant when there are so many other things that they could write about, like this amazing story of a man who saved lives" post. That's a bit verbose for a headline, though.
I wouldn't know what reddit's like since I've barely ever been there.
I don't see where the verbosity of the content linked has anything to do with anything on HN. For example, in the last 10 hours, I've seen: "programming motherfucker," which was a large meme, a page with nothing but three or four bar charts and no analysis, several short blog/opinion posts... So I don't know why HN should be focused on the length of a post or how many words are used in it rather than the content.
Finally, there are plenty of sensational headlines on HN. Off the top of my head, I remember "Bag of Hurt," "Rip-Off Express," "Are Happy People Dumb," "Limitless Brain Power Possible," and I'm sure there are thousands of others that I don't actually remember. I do remember just yesterday, I was sitting here thinking that some headlines seemed really sensational just to get people to click.
I think it was even James Altucher, who is often linked here, that admitted in a blog post that he makes sensational headlines that have nothing to do with his actual content, and those are often linked here!
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I wouldn't know what reddit's like since I've barely ever been there.
I don't see where the verbosity of the content linked has anything to do with anything on HN. For example, in the last 10 hours, I've seen: "programming motherfucker," which was a large meme, a page with nothing but three or four bar charts and no analysis, several short blog/opinion posts... So I don't know why HN should be focused on the length of a post or how many words are used in it rather than the content.
Finally, there are plenty of sensational headlines on HN. Off the top of my head, I remember "Bag of Hurt," "Rip-Off Express," "Are Happy People Dumb," "Limitless Brain Power Possible," and I'm sure there are thousands of others that I don't actually remember. I do remember just yesterday, I was sitting here thinking that some headlines seemed really sensational just to get people to click.
I think it was even James Altucher, who is often linked here, that admitted in a blog post that he makes sensational headlines that have nothing to do with his actual content, and those are often linked here!