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> Ok, so “hate” is a strong word, but hopefully this click-baits enough folks into reading this article with a clearer, more rational and unbiased demeanor than
by philipodonnell 8y ago
> Ok, so “hate” is a strong word, but hopefully this click-baits enough folks into reading this article with a clearer, more rational and unbiased demeanor than what the title suggests.
Self-aware clickbait is the worst kind of clickbait.
- tomtimtall 8y agoAll clickbait is self-aware. People aren’t not doing it by accident.
- coldtea 8y agoPeople can very well do it because they like fancy titles, or leaving things unspecified, or puns, or whatever, and not to drive visitors to their website. In fact, before the web, authors have long used fancy titles for articles that you had to buy the magazine or newspaper to even read, so they had no advertising-like value to attract unsuspecting readers.
- kojeovo 8y ago> People aren’t not doing it by accident Were you self aware when using a double negative?
- dTal 8y agoIf the title had been "Python [is] a very problematic programming language for building reliable, high-performance distributed systems.", we'd all have just gone "duh" and moved on.
- philipodonnell 8y agoYeah, but if that's the case then just have the title be clickbait and leave it. Having the title be clickbait and acknowledging that in the first sentence and trying to justify it as somehow improving the reception of the content is just kind of insulting. "Look at me using the word hate misleadingly, hate is such a strong word". Is it though? This is like the title-writing version of /r/madlads. :-)
- coldtea 8y agoWhat's even worse is the endless complaining about clickbait in legit and nicely informative posts.
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