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A comment on Ask HN: Why are clickbait titles bad?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are clickbait titles bad? by dudul on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:00PM (#11439643)
I usually call "clickbait titles" titles that, after reading the article, end up being misleading. Either because they end up having very little to do with the article, or sometimes even telling the opposite story the article is telling.

Understood that headlines are supposed to make you want to read the article, with clickbait titles there is this feeling that you've been tricked. Tricked in spending a chunk of your time to read a story that ended up having very little to do with the title that was use to "sell" it to you.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are clickbait titles bad? by luchadorvader on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:23PM (#11439802)
I understand your point of view, I guess I'm more bothered by how it seems to me that people are quickly to yell clickbait and just that which if anything could bring more attention to the article. I almost feel likes it's yelling "Don't look!", which is going to make me look.
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