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content aside, this title is a bit of a new low for me from arstechnica. author probably fed the clickbait title of "You won't believe this amazing trick..." in
by alliao 5y ago
content aside, this title is a bit of a new low for me from arstechnica. author probably fed the clickbait title of "You won't believe this amazing trick..." into quillbot and just called it a day. Man I remember when jon stokes was around or maybe I was younger, arstechnica felt so serious?
- antiterra 5y agoOn sites where there’s anything close to a formal editing structure, the title is often not selected by the author. Sometimes the author may not know the final title until they see it in print.
- nitrogen 5y agoArs also went downhill after the Condé Nast acquisition. The titles are more clickbait, there are more sponsored stories, the comments section was redesigned to amplify controversy and railroading, there are more virtue stories, ... They even went as far as putting paid product placement for an expensive designer mask into one of their weekly early COVID19 updates, like it was some kind of lifestyle magazine and not ars/science.