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Countering upworthy headlines: https://github.com/snipe/downworthy https://github.com/snipe/downworthy (Not guaranteed to work on all headlines; feel free to c
by solox3 12y ago
Countering upworthy headlines: https://github.com/snipe/downworthy https://github.com/snipe/downworthy
(Not guaranteed to work on all headlines; feel free to contribute filters)
- DanAndersen 12y agoI wonder if there has been work on Bayesian spam filtering but for upworthy-style clickbait headlines. Phrase substitution is fun, but I'd love to see some sort of machine learning that could pick up on the clickbaityness of headlines. For example, I can't remember the last time a headline with "This/These" or "You" wasn't clickbait.
- dublinben 12y agoInstead of 'fixing' the hyperbolic headlines, stop following the sources that have shared them, and ignore these sites. Upworthy et. al. do this because it works.
- solox3 12y agoThe author's idea was to block upworthy headlines, but I use it myself to block any article links to these upworthy websites, on sites like HN and Reddit.