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Because it's hilarious to quantify and state. Why ask ridiculous questions?
by royaltjames 6y ago
Because it's hilarious to quantify and state. Why ask ridiculous questions?
- Aeolun 6y agoThat’s one word to describe it. Personally I find it to be in spectacularly bad taste.
- jackric 6y agoBecause it's one extra feather on the scales of increased cynicism about what you see online. Clickbait culture is toxic
- tacLog 6y agoLegitimate question, how and why is clickbait culture toxic? I am not creating it or defending it. I am just a little confused what you mean by that exactly.
- general_pizza 6y agoNot original commenter but I think jackric already alluded to the increased cynicism that develops from clickbait. Personally, when I see so many ppl giving up honest and nuanced statements/opinions for hyperbole in order to gain views/likes, it's disappointing.
- jackric 6y agoRaises the noise in the signal-to-noise ratio of a browsing experience. I may pass over reading a useful truthful article because I'm trained to dismiss its title as misleading.
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- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoBecause it's a meaningless number. If he is actually placing an order for that amount every minute, it would be a useful number (and he would be an asshole for making so many fake orders and filling their system with garbage metrics). If he placed ice-creams in the cart for 8000 stores, then he should give that number. The dollar value is a completely pointless number in this case, and was done purely for clickbait.
- cphoover 6y agoShould be simple enough to filter his IP address out unless he proxied his requests right?