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Clickbait title. Actual title should be: [Orcas] Can Make Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
by freditup 8y ago
Clickbait title. Actual title should be:
[Orcas] Can Make Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
- phonypc 8y agoSeems innocuous to me. It doesn't give false impressions in the way so many article titles do these days, just a hook for finding out what the predator is.
- chrisseaton 8y ago> just a hook for finding out what the predator is That's the problem - click baiting and hiding information.
- nkozyra 8y agoHeadlines don't need to be this expressive to avoid being clickbait.
- rooam-dev 8y agoIt gives the impression that something new has been discovered. So in this case is a clickbait, you have to click and find out something that is known, maybe not well known but I wouldn't say a secret. I personally knew about Orcas attacking sharks.
- Gpetrium 8y agoI think you filled in the blanks with a 'new discovery', when your brain could have simply assumed that the title would be "A discovery of a new animal that scares even the Great White Shark!" if there was a new discovery. I think it is click-bait in the literal sense, but not in the negative connotation that click-bait is used today.
- bytesandbots 8y agoI was expecting the predator to be humans.
- chengiz 8y agoYes, and the headline writer knows this. If the title was "Orcas Make Great White Sharks Flee in Fear", most of us would have nodded and moved on. To be fair, that was an interesting article, clickbait title notwithstanding.
- kbenson 8y agoThe question the title raises is answered in the first paragraph, which consists of two sentences. I really wish we could get past this phase of referring to every title that tries to gather interest by using a little bit of mystery as clickbait in a pejorative way. There's a middle ground between writing being manipulative and misleading and writing being fact based and dry.
- Joe-Z 8y agoI do not. Calling bullshit out is exactly what I want to see. There's like 20 links on one page of HN for me, I don't need "a little bit of mystery" when I want to scan what I may be interested in EDIT: It's 30 links...
- moate 8y agoWhat about this title wouldn't give you the information you needed to decide if this is something you may be interested in?
- mrob 8y agoI already know that killer whales attack great white sharks. I'm only interested in reading the article if it's about some other predator, but they deliberately omit the identity from the title to force me to click to find out. That is clickbait.
- Joe-Z 8y agoI just want to be able to browse a news aggregating site and have a rough idea of what the article is about. So why have me click on the article only to find out "oh, it's about interactions between great whites and orcas" when you can just put that information in the title. Sure, if I'm clicking on anything fish-related anyway that may not be a problem. But the title as it is phrased now clearly leaves out a key bit of information, namely who this predator is. That's disingenuous and the reason why I support calling it out as clickbait (i.e. "click on this link just to find out what it is actually about!")
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- robotresearcher 8y agoOrcas Sometimes Avoid Great White Sharks.
- nikofeyn 8y agois this a joke? the article and nature says the opposite. it is great whites who avoid orcas.
- robotresearcher 8y agoI transposed the species by mistake. My point was that 'fleeing in fear' is not what the scientists reported. The animals objectively went away. That they 'fled in fear' is editorialized.