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The title is so bad, can't understand what's it about. Atleast around other topics here.

saaaaaam 6mo ago
No, it’s a great title. It was curious enough that I clicked and then I read the whole thing. It’s unlikely I would have done that if it had been something like “Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards”.
- duozerk 6mo ago
  In other words it's a great clickbait title, yet still a bad title.
  - seszett 6mo ago
    I wouldn't say that. The current title indicates that the article is likely written in a less clinical manner than an article called "Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards" would have been.
    - lucb1e 6mo ago
      Thanks for that, now I know I don't care about the contents before clicking. Misleading titles (something about smartphones and metals?) is why people open comments before reading the article
  - greg_dc 6mo ago
    Clickbait is where the title leads you to believe the article is more interesting than it is. I'd argue this was the opposite of that.
  - satvikpendem 6mo ago
    Would you call titles of other media click bait too, like 1984 or Gone with the wind? Sometimes an article doesn't have to have a literal title, sometimes it's an artistic decision to have a more vague title that nevertheless relates to the media.
  - saaaaaam 5mo ago
    No - just because a title inspires curiosity doesn’t mean it is clickbait. Clickbait titles are urgent and generally either over-egg something or are misleading. This was just a good title. Thinking about this a little more: the reason I opened and read the piece was because it inspired questions. First of all, a phone and a brass plug are conceptually different things. So immediately I thought “how can a phone replace a plug? What sort of plug?” Then I thought more about plugs - is it a bath plug? An electrical plug? This doesn’t make sense! How can a phone replace a plug? And then the specific fact it was a BRASS plug made me even more curious. What sort of plugs are made from brass? It’s a strange and specific thing to make a plug from… there’s clearly something I’m missing here and I’d like to find out more. So then I opened the piece, and the quality of the writing meant that, invested in the question as I already was, I didn’t really mind that the answer wasn’t immediate. I was prepared to go on the journey the writer had contradicted for me to find what I needed to know. That’s why it’s a great title, because the questions it prompted meant that by the time I clicked and started reading I was already mentally invested in the journey.
advisedwang 6mo ago
I found reading the article made it pretty clear what it was about.

No, it’s a great title. It was curious enough that I clicked and then I read the whole thing. It’s unlikely I would have done that if it had been something like “Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards”.

duozerk 6mo ago
In other words it's a great clickbait title, yet still a bad title.
- seszett 6mo ago
  I wouldn't say that. The current title indicates that the article is likely written in a less clinical manner than an article called "Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards" would have been.
  - lucb1e 6mo ago
    Thanks for that, now I know I don't care about the contents before clicking. Misleading titles (something about smartphones and metals?) is why people open comments before reading the article
- greg_dc 6mo ago
  Clickbait is where the title leads you to believe the article is more interesting than it is. I'd argue this was the opposite of that.
- satvikpendem 6mo ago
  Would you call titles of other media click bait too, like 1984 or Gone with the wind? Sometimes an article doesn't have to have a literal title, sometimes it's an artistic decision to have a more vague title that nevertheless relates to the media.
- saaaaaam 5mo ago
  No - just because a title inspires curiosity doesn’t mean it is clickbait. Clickbait titles are urgent and generally either over-egg something or are misleading. This was just a good title. Thinking about this a little more: the reason I opened and read the piece was because it inspired questions. First of all, a phone and a brass plug are conceptually different things. So immediately I thought “how can a phone replace a plug? What sort of plug?” Then I thought more about plugs - is it a bath plug? An electrical plug? This doesn’t make sense! How can a phone replace a plug? And then the specific fact it was a BRASS plug made me even more curious. What sort of plugs are made from brass? It’s a strange and specific thing to make a plug from… there’s clearly something I’m missing here and I’d like to find out more. So then I opened the piece, and the quality of the writing meant that, invested in the question as I already was, I didn’t really mind that the answer wasn’t immediate. I was prepared to go on the journey the writer had contradicted for me to find what I needed to know. That’s why it’s a great title, because the questions it prompted meant that by the time I clicked and started reading I was already mentally invested in the journey.

advisedwang 6mo ago

I found reading the article made it pretty clear what it was about.