Let's talk about clickbait and sources when posting
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Let's also not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Aka. discredit any and all content just because of a clickbaity title.
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5SngVeritasium's newest video was so clickbaity. I watched for 15 minutes and he didn't get to the part where he explains the title. I quit watching when he interviewed a professor at a university in Israel. Those universities design weapons for mass murder of civilians.
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As much as I dislike ai, this is why I enjoyed the short lived “Artifact” news website (Yahoo bought them out). Their feed had a feature where you could report a click bait title and it would use ai to turn it into a normal sentence. If enough people clicked it, that would become how it was seen by people. I really dislike people using the click bait title on the fediverse, but it’s a symptom of the internet today as a whole.
I've got posts taken down because I made up a descriptive non clickbait title. The mods didn't like it.
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Hard agree. I tend to ignore posts that only provide a link and nothing else.
At the very least highlight something of the text in the post description that is worth reading to create a discussion, and then give us your two cents in the comments.
I've noticed that trend, especially with high-volume posters
Some things are posted with substance and other times it's just a link to a pic of a random artefact in a museum. Ok, it's cool looking but is it significant? Not that that matters but if you're going to post something at least include why. Other than "I hit random"
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I wish I can upvote this 100 times.
I skip posts with articles that have 0 comments and wait for the smartiaian who will read the article and summarize the 2 sentences.
I wish I can upvote this 100 times.
That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?
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I hate this on gaming communities:
This fast-paced shooter is reinventing the format, taking the Steam charts by storm!
Just tell me the fucking name of the game so I can tell if I've already heard of it or if this is actually new information.
You didn‘t say the name either.
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I've got posts taken down because I made up a descriptive non clickbait title. The mods didn't like it.
Do you have some examples?
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Do you have some examples?
No but you can search for "title" on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for other people's stories
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You didn‘t say the name either.
I just made up a typical clickbait headline, I wasn't talking about any game in particular...
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I like to browse by new, but that also means most things have no comments. Which sort do you usually use?
I recommend "new comments".
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I wish I can upvote this 100 times.
That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?
That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?
I TOLD you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate...
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I just made up a typical clickbait headline, I wasn't talking about any game in particular...
No you didn‘t. This was an actual title of a thread in the largest game community the other day. I don‘t remember the title either, though.
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No you didn‘t. This was an actual title of a thread in the largest game community the other day. I don‘t remember the title either, though.
If it was it was a complete coincidence, I literally just pulled something clickbaity out of my ass to illustrate the point. Just tells you how similar and boilerplate these headlines are becoming, though.
