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Psychology of Clickbait
- leeoniya 11y agouBlock Origin prevented 43 requests on this page. whoa, Wired! </aside>
- pen2l 11y ago39 for me. But on the plus side, it's pure bliss: http://i.imgur.com/JhEobs1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JhEobs1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hjyRkkD.png http://i.imgur.com/hjyRkkD.png I've custom-added to uBlock even the "see also" links from all websites. It means yes that I'm not "accidentally" discovering articles on wired, but at some point I decided it's okay. I'm probably not going to miss big things by doing this... (if Wired does come out with a great article, I'll probably get linked to it by someone somewhere). I feel somewhat guilty that I do this to every site, it seems almost parasitic and not entirely in the spirit of the social contract. I think I'll give them $10 or something.
- username223 11y agoAh, good old OutBrain... As time goes on and users (including myself) filter out more of the garbage, I have less of an idea what web pages actually look like to the average user. Hooray for Standards and the Open Web!
- manyxcxi 11y agoSeriously. When I use my wife's laptop my first thought is "why do all these pages look so different?"
- dchest 11y agoWait, why are you using both uBlock and AdBlock?
- leeoniya 11y agoif you scroll down it loads more asynchronously
- fbbbbb 11y agoArticles with lists, are like a self contained series of short clickbait articles.
- cygnus_a 11y agofor me it's more like... boobs? why'd they put boobs in the thumbnail? the article isn't even... I ... I might as well see if there's a bigger picture of the boobs
- Bulkington 11y agoExactly. Breasts are the original and ultimate click bait for a large segment of human population. http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html
- exodust 11y agoContrary to the article's claims, I click and visit the clickbaiters less and less. "Annoying but it works"... I disagree. For editorial content to work, it should appeal to long term readers. Also, "psychology of clicbbait" isn't a clickait headline as they seem to suggest. Edit.. I see now they were referring to their own rather different headline, which I wouldn't have clicked on at all.
- kobayashi 11y ago>For editorial content to work, it should appeal to long term readers. I don't think this applies in the current market of eyeballs, where readers are plentiful.
- exodust 11y agoThat approach only lasts so long, as would "world's best coffee" sign above shop door.
- noobermin 11y agoWell, it's not like those levers don't exist for HN readers, right? HN Examples: Python Quirks (hnclickba.it) 35 points by hnclickbait 4 hours ago | flag | 10 comments >python quirks...the last article a couple of months ago basically was like `a,b=[[]] * 2; a.append(1); print(b)' and other such things I've known since my mother's knee, but may be there might be interesting nuggets this time, why not click. Fusion (phys.org) 54 points by fusionnerd_plsgimmegrant 5 hours ago | flag | 20 comments >Fusion results! Yeah, for the last year, every fusion article was a rehash of the same scientific, layman description of fusion, and a paragraph summarizing the latest result which pushed us incrementally towards it, but may be there is something really new here! I'd like to think that HN has much more intelligent articles and a much more intelligent viewership, but we're driven by psychology too. Not to mention our biases, and while we endeavor to overcome them, they still drive us to an extent. I wager that decisions (like reading an article or not) is still a linear combination of interest, will, and yes, the psychology of anticipation and information gap as discussed in the article. The weights on subconcious driver "terms" in the linear combination might be lesser than the others but I'm pretty sure they still play a roll.
- destroythecore 11y agoMost people do not even realize it is bait.
- richardboegli 11y agoI think they copied this video? 4 ways you've been click baited!? It was published a month ago http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/665808 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/665808
- inanutshellus 11y agoI've considered making a browser plugin that'd hide CNN articles automatically if they fit certain criteria (in order of annoyance): * Is a video-only "article" * Ends with a word in all caps (Brittany Wore THIS) * Asks a question (Are You Dying Right Now?) * Goes to an affiliate network (text spam)
- inanutshellus 11y agooh, and contains the words "surprising" or "weird" or "trick" of course :P