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Peoples definition of clickbait differs, sometimes a genuinely interesting piece of information becomes clickbait once it's been posted for 10th time. But for a
by dageshi 9y ago
Peoples definition of clickbait differs, sometimes a genuinely interesting piece of information becomes clickbait once it's been posted for 10th time. But for a lot of people it's the first time they're seeing it, so it's not clickbait to them yet.
- matt4077 9y agoThe phrase has become meaningless. It used to be “Five ideas that saved my life. #7 will Safe yours...” Today, on HN and elsewhere, people label any headline “clickbait” if it isn’t a neat and complete summary of the article’s content. Any suspense, or pun, or metaphor gets the dreaded monicker. Which is actually quite a change from just 5 years or so back. At the time where google was the main source for news publishers, and not social media, headlines went through a phase of being overly descriptive. They were trying to hit all the keywords people might search for. Back then, it was quite common to bemoan the death of the creative headline.
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