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> Misleading headlines lower the quality of public discourse. Misleading headlines only affect people who have not read the article. People who have not read t
by fao_ 7y ago
> Misleading headlines lower the quality of public discourse.
Misleading headlines only affect people who have not read the article. People who have not read the article, or can't bother to read the article, are essentially incapable of giving a proper high-quality response to the article.
I don't see how you can lower the quality of discourse any further than someone commenting on an article that they didn't read.
- aeternum 7y agoTime is a valuable commodity, it is disingenuous to trick people into reading articles through the use of clickbait headlines. The article itself also continues to conflate the definitions of dimension by referring to 3-D. When little timmy draws a star on his paper we don't say "congrats on your 5 dimensional drawing".
- fao_ 7y ago> Time is a valuable commodity, Right, so don't waste other people's time by commenting on an article that you haven't properly read.