attention-getting

" It is at the same time friendlier and more attention-getting.

Otherwise submitters compete to make attention-getting titles, and you end up with the frontpage of reddit.

For me, there's definitely an attention-getting side to the "radical honesty" as presented in the article.

All the developers in the beta are under NDA, so they can't write attention-getting blog posts that might actually influence Apple to do something.

And to be clear I'm not saying that what they report is fabricated, just that the content is sliced and diced in the most attention-getting way possible - just like reality TV.

And there's much more competition for eyeballs from SEO-optimized, attention-getting bullshit.

Contrarian anecdotes are an ill-conceived method of contributing to a conversation, and doing so in some sort of attention-getting way.

The Silicon Valley aspect of the article is a red herring, no doubt because it's attention-getting, but perhaps also because the author doesn't realize this is simply an instance of a type.

Once everybody is doing a shiny, whizzy attention-getting thing, then folks will start competing by being more shiny, more whizzy and more attention-getting than everyone else.

The clip, though attention-getting, is wildly inaccurate and irresponsible.

He knows it is an attention-getting question, and he wants to answer it in favor of a powerless underdog who was robbed of his just deserts by well-connected "insiders," because he wants people to see that story everywhere.

If the point is, as the addendum at the bottom indicates, to convince scientists to support a bioinformatics group rather than having their own bioinformatician, the same arguments and reasoning the post shows could've been presented without the whole "you're not allowed bioinformatics" framing device, which is certainly attention-getting but far less likely to be persuasive because you're behaving confrontationally towards the very people you're trying to persuade.