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I hate articles that go on and on about some story before finally explaining what's in the title.
by mgaunard 3y ago
I hate articles that go on and on about some story before finally explaining what's in the title.
- MalphasWats 3y agoYou're complaining about a Writer writing?
- mgaunard 3y agoI'm complaining about clickbait.
- croes 3y agoIf the article fits the title and isn't just to draw clicks it's not clickbait. To be overly verbose is neither.
- KingMob 3y agoA light introduction that then segues into background material on a complicated legal topic is not clickbait.
- remram 3y ago> The first three versions of the Creative Commons license contained a small, significant oversight This sentence is 1087 words in. That's a long "light introduction".
- KingMob 3y agoYou're lumping in the long background section with the introduction.
- mgaunard 3y agoThe actual content I would expect is the following 3 points. 1. What the old clause of the license was 2. What kind of unintended side effect it had 3. What the new clause addressing this is Summing up those 3 points results in a clear paragraph of maybe 5 to 10 lines. Meanwhile I challenge anyone who hasn't read it to extract that content from the article in less than 15 minutes.
- jamincan 3y agoThe article delivers what it promises. While it may not be concise, that doesn't make it clickbait.
- zulban 3y agoThe article was packed with interesting legal details. If you don't like it you can just downvote and move on.
- Timwi 3y agoOr, hear me out, people seeing this constructive feedback here could take it to heart and do better next time.
- KingMob 3y agoCory Doctorow is an established and prolific author of over 20 years. Pretty sure he's not changing his writing style for people with short attention spans who mislabel things as clickbait.
- sdenton4 3y agoI feel that people who go on and on about 'clickbait' simply don't like reading... Feed the article to GPT if all you want is a bulleted list of points. Or just skim!
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