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Saving social media for posterity
- Animats 10y agoEven the New York Times now has clickbait. Sad.
- et-al 10y agoBack in the day, they were just called catchy headlines.
- pessimizer 10y agoBack in the day, they were called tabloid headlines.
- gozur88 10y agoA "catchy headline" used to mean something with clever alliteration. I doubt the editors from even ten years ago would have allowed something like this one.
- dang 10y agoOk, we changed the title to a representative phrase from the article.
- hendzen 10y agoChange that final period to an exclamation point and you have a reasonably convincing Donald Trump tweet.
- danso 10y agoHM automatically deletes exclamation points from titles. Was curious (and because it's a lazy Saturday) and found that the title-sanitizer also deletes exclamation points from anywhere in the text (not just the end). I guess that makes submitting a code snippet with `!` a bit tricky.
- oliv__ 10y agoI guess you can't mention Yahoo! either
- koolba 10y agoEvery time I see Yahoo! written with the suffixed "!" I think of every El Reg headline regarding them. Here's a recent example: "Yahoo! is! not! killing! Messenger! today!, just! the! desktop! client!" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/05/yahoo_messenger_is_not_being_shut_down_today/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/05/yahoo_messenger_is_n... And here's one from over 14 years ago! "Yahoo! Rips! Up! Privacy! Policy!" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/03/yahoo_rips_up_privacy_policy/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/03/yahoo_rips_up_privac...
- jboynyc 10y agoTo be fair, "change history" in this case refers to transformations in the work of historians.
- douche 10y agoNow? It's been chockablock full of it for at least a half decade. I loved the crossword, but it got so that was the only part worth reading out of the whole paper.
- justinlardinois 10y agoIs it just me or is the scope of what's considered "clickbait" expanding exponentially? I don't see how this is clickbait. How and to what degree we record human communication has a direct impact on what's remembered as history. The headline isn't exaggerating.
- Asparagirl 10y agoNo mention of ArchiveTeam, which has been slurping down social media into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for years now. I sicced the crawlers on some of the yuckier corners of Twitter just the other day. The bad needs to be preserved along with the good, for context. (Join us! http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot)
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- Smaug123 10y agoThe gratuitous bit of quantum at the end was irritating. I'd have much preferred it if they said something like "Unrelatedly, a recent quantum physics paper used a phrase which is particularly apt in this context:".