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I think dingaling's point is that the headline is clickbait.

• Lawtonfogle 11y ago
  The editor was trying to convey as much info within the given length as they could. They didn't realize that it would result in a title that was also clickbait. Remember, never blame malice where stupidity will suffice. (P.S. Of course it was click bait and purposefully done so, there is an art to creating clickbait headlines that can be defended as not being clickbait.)
  • smallape 11y ago
    Do you actually have a line of communication to the editor or are you guessing?
    • Lawtonfogle 11y ago
      Direct line of communication. But they could still be lying, so I guess I should say it was a guess. Actually, I got a psychic to get me direct access to their brain, so I'm sure they aren't lying. But they could be incorrectly remembering it. So we still can't be certain. For it to be 100% not a guess, I'm going to need to get go back in time with my time machine and have the psychic come with me, but he is saying something about how that could cause problems. So sadly we are stuck just inferring (guessing) with the information given.
• surge 11y ago
  Headlines have been written to grab your immediate attention and want to read further since newspapers have been in print. If that makes it "clickbait", its usually only clickbait when the headline over promises or leads with some climatic note and under delivers, like "That one weird trick to losing weight" turns out its called limiting calorie consumption and exercise or "A guy was walking down the street, you won't believe what happens next", which turns out I do and what happens is only mildly interesting or the buzzfeed "12 things on a list of things on how to do something, 11 of which you already know about and the 12th not being very effective"