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This is the most clickbaity-y title I've seen in a long time! Not complaining, it definitely piqued my interest. As a Philly native, I love that uPenn is doing

This is the most clickbaity-y title I've seen in a long time! Not complaining, it definitely piqued my interest. As a Philly native, I love that uPenn is doing cool experiments like this.

dahdum 8y ago
For me, clickbait has a negative connotation, the expectation that the article won't deliver on the headline. This article delivered. Such a cool experiment and field of study.
- yaseer 8y ago
  I agree - this article was not clickbait. The content delivered on the title. Piquing your interest with the title is just good headline-writing. It only becomes clickbait when the title is a cynical perversion of the content.
  - pmoriarty 8y ago
    Just as fishing bait entice fish to bite the bait, clickbait titles entice people to click the title. If a title is interesting enough to get lots of people to click on it, it is by definition clickbait. Titles for interesting articles should themselves be interesting, as boring titles for interesting articles would increase one's chance of missing them. An interesting title is only objectionable is the article itself is not worth reading.
    - IanCal 8y ago
      But the reason we call it bait and not just "fish food" is that it is there to trick the fish into doing something it does not want to do. Something is not necessarily bait just because it's interesting or enticing.
      - pmoriarty 8y ago
        But there is no term like "clickfood" which would imply that the title is interesting and the corresponding article is worth reading. So people fixate on the title and call any interesting, well-written title "clickbait" regardless of whether the article itself is worth reading or not. I'm simply pointing out that such an enticing title is not necessarily bad if the article itself is worth reading. The alternative is a boring title, which is a disservice to any article worth reading.
        BubRoss 8y ago
        > But there is no term like "clickfood" That's supposed to just be called journalism.
    - Depooty 8y ago
      If you bite the bait and youre a fish you die. If you bite the bait on clickbait you die a little inside. It's more like a hot girl matches you on tinder and shes not a bot and DTF. This article was def DTF and shes fit.
JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> the most clickbaity-y title I've seen in a long time I thought I'd be opening an article about the human brain. Pleasantly, it's about an attenuation-based analog computer that for some reason requires metamaterials. The most novel aspect, for me, is the computational method used to design and direct the fabrication of the apparatus.

This is the most clickbaity-y title I've seen in a long time! Not complaining, it definitely piqued my interest. As a Philly native, I love that uPenn is doing cool experiments like this.

dahdum 8y ago

For me, clickbait has a negative connotation, the expectation that the article won't deliver on the headline. This article delivered. Such a cool experiment and field of study.

yaseer 8y ago
I agree - this article was not clickbait. The content delivered on the title. Piquing your interest with the title is just good headline-writing. It only becomes clickbait when the title is a cynical perversion of the content.
- pmoriarty 8y ago
  Just as fishing bait entice fish to bite the bait, clickbait titles entice people to click the title. If a title is interesting enough to get lots of people to click on it, it is by definition clickbait. Titles for interesting articles should themselves be interesting, as boring titles for interesting articles would increase one's chance of missing them. An interesting title is only objectionable is the article itself is not worth reading.
  - IanCal 8y ago
    But the reason we call it bait and not just "fish food" is that it is there to trick the fish into doing something it does not want to do. Something is not necessarily bait just because it's interesting or enticing.
    - pmoriarty 8y ago
      But there is no term like "clickfood" which would imply that the title is interesting and the corresponding article is worth reading. So people fixate on the title and call any interesting, well-written title "clickbait" regardless of whether the article itself is worth reading or not. I'm simply pointing out that such an enticing title is not necessarily bad if the article itself is worth reading. The alternative is a boring title, which is a disservice to any article worth reading.
      - BubRoss 8y ago
        > But there is no term like "clickfood" That's supposed to just be called journalism.
  - Depooty 8y ago
    If you bite the bait and youre a fish you die. If you bite the bait on clickbait you die a little inside. It's more like a hot girl matches you on tinder and shes not a bot and DTF. This article was def DTF and shes fit.

JumpCrisscross 8y ago

> the most clickbaity-y title I've seen in a long time I thought I'd be opening an article about the human brain. Pleasantly, it's about an attenuation-based analog computer that for some reason requires metamaterials. The most novel aspect, for me, is the computational method used to design and direct the fabrication of the apparatus.