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It's hardly clickbait. Clickbait would be a purposely inflammatory or exaggerated title to get you to click the link. This is the complete opposite of that.

> It's clickbaity because you have to click to find out if their opinion is highly positive or negative.

I think you just stated the purpose of a title. Wiki says clickbait is:

> "... relying on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching thumbnail pictures "

There's nothing sensationalist about. "I tried Haskell for 5 years". It's rather banal.



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