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xena • today at 10:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Half the reason you put an attention grabbing picture there is that you get algorithmically deboosted for not having one. Don't blame the players, blame the game.


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Joker_vD • today at 10:49 PM

That too, I guess. I just personally don't really mind it either way — a screencap from the 80s' Transformers cartoon with Optimus Prime in its truck form before an article about different implementation strategies of a "switch" construct? Sure, why not. And I bet that picture wouldn't trigger the same response in the original commenter.

Some blogs end up having interesting (not the right word, but I can't think of a proper one) sequences of leading pictures for their series of related posts, so that's an additional bonus for a reader, as a kind of second narrative/story, perhaps completely unrelated to the first one.