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It's been interesting to watch the rapid degradation of the term clickbait, we've quickly gone from the original targets of the term ("Local mother discovers on
by bidirectional 6y ago
It's been interesting to watch the rapid degradation of the term clickbait, we've quickly gone from the original targets of the term ("Local mother discovers one small trick", "He did X, you WON'T believe what happened next"), to it now being used in probably a third of HN's comment sections to describe any title which is even mildly editorialised and not a longwinded statement of plain facts.
- totalZero 6y ago^^ the No True Clickbait fallacy Personally I feel that the mathematician should have used smaller font. Could have gotten it down to one page.
- xmprt 6y agoIf anything I think the term clickbait is used more appropriately now. "Local mother discovers one small trick" is terrible clickbait because most people are used to it now in the same way a Nigerian prince scam won't work on most people. Clickbait is anything that gets you to click on an article. In some cases, it can be good clickbait and an equally good article and in other cases it can be bad clickbait where the title states facts but the facts are misleading or require a specific interpretation or need more context or don't accurately describe the essence of the article.
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoThe connotation of clickbait is essential to its definition.
- ahmedalsudani 6y agoSame with troll. Anybody you disagree with is a troll nowadays. Thinking about it some more, that also applies to "alt-right", "SJW", "Nazi", ...