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if this headline reads like clickbait, you might be a little jumpy.
by frazbin 5y ago
if this headline reads like clickbait, you might be a little jumpy.
- geocrasher 5y agoWe live in a world where any compelling title is accused of being clickbait.
- krapp 5y agoAny compelling title is by definition clickbait. Compelling you to click is what clickbait does. A non-clickbait title simply and directly describes the thesis of the article. In this case, something like "Simulation of the Earth/Moon collision scenario in the novel Seveneves."
- Kaibeezy 5y agoSlippery slope, right there. While some people will be able to draft a reasonable title like you did, many will be klutzy and some will be a mess, as compared with the very occasional herring like this one. Another example is a post I just put up about a sci-fi and fantasy book review blog with the sadly useless name of “Before We Go Blog”. I contemplated explaining it better in the title exactly as you are suggesting, but in the end added a comment with the blog’s own self-description and left it at that. If enough people find it interesting, it will sort itself out.