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Strong clickbait game from Atlas Obscura

• imron 9y ago
  I've certainly noticed that recently there seems to have been an increase in the number of 'less relevant than I'd expect' Atlas Obscura articles regularly making the front page. A quick look at the submission details though doesn't reveal any sort of sustained pattern - either of posters or timings between submissions.
  • falsedan 9y ago
    Yeah, I didn't say it was a systemic spamming problem; the submissions are completely organic due to their strong clickbait game: Atlas Obscura specialises in the long-form, superficially-interesting but ultimately-pointless articles that give infovores enough of a hit to make them think, hey I learned something that not many other people know, I should share it. And yeah, you do end up learning about (say) the underground town of opal miners at Coober Pedy… but not to any more depth than someone who read the Wikipedia article (who also avoided creating ad impressions).