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- You wont believe how much money they make - Engineers are shocked with these results - Here is the top 10 headlines they found. #6 will make you cringe - T
by goshx 10y ago
- You wont believe how much money they make
- Engineers are shocked with these results
- Here is the top 10 headlines they found. #6 will make you cringe
- The CEO wrote the sweetest message to them
Perhaps they should simply ban buzzfeed or use all of their headlines as examples.
- pc86 10y ago> Perhaps they should simply ban buzzfeed What a kind, just world that would be.
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- potatoyogurt 10y agoYou'd miss out on the handful of really good real journalism articles per month that Buzzfeed publishes in that case, which would be kind of a shame. Maybe that's how they justify the expense of doing real journalism -- it makes it harder for other sites to ban their domain.
- paulgb 10y agoHN bans buzzfeed submissions outright, but I would have loved to see the community's comments on this article, for example: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewrice/the-fall-of-intrade-and-the-business-of-betting-on-real-life https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewrice/the-fall-of-intrade-and-...
- quotemstr 10y agoThanks. That was an interesting article. "Roman bookies ran numbers on the election of Renaissance popes until Gregory XIV banned the practice on penalty of excommunication. Around the turn of the 20th century, Wall Street brokers openly traded election futures and newspapers quoted their prices like modern opinion polls. Strumpf estimates that at the peak of this practice, in the election of 1916, around $10 million was bet on these markets — more than $200 million in today’s dollars. By the end of the New Deal era, though, the electoral markets had all but disappeared, due to both competition — modern polling pushed the betting lines out of the newspapers — and legal crackdowns."
- cooper12 10y agoFWIW, some buzzfeed articles are supposedly of a higher calibre and have been shared and successful on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=buzzfeed.com&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=buzzfeed.com&sort=byPopularity...
- tedmiston 10y agoFWIW BuzzFeed insists they don't do clickbait because they don't over-promise on expectations (the second requirement listed in Facebook's post). > Most clickbait is disappointing because it’s a promise of value that isn’t met — the payoff isn’t nearly as good as what the reader imagines,” Patel said. “BuzzFeed headlines pay off particularly well because they actually make fairly small promises and then overdeliver. https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-buzzfeed-doesnt-do-clickbait https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-buzzfeed-doesnt-do-cli...