Ask HN: Why are clickbait titles bad?

Re:Ask HN: Why are clickbait titles bad? by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:04PM (#11439672)

The usual clickbait title will get you to a page by asking a question or leaving something out. "Do butterflies have the dna from two different creatures?!?" (btw The answer to those is always "No") Once you're there, you find its a waste of time. Just to get some impressions or whatever.

I've stopped clicking anything that doesn't answer the question in the title. But that means I can hardly click on anything, especially facebook posts. Because even my friends don't bother to label them! Its so easy to say "This article explains X" but they just leave the clickbait title. So I guess I'll become a hermit.

"This man became a hermit for the Weirdest reason!"

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Re:Ask HN: Why are clickbait titles bad? by luchadorvader on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:19PM (#11439771)

And that's the type of reaction I would encourage. Yes you stop clicking on a lot of articles, but you're less likely to waste your time. I find that instead of going to around yelling clickbait, just ignore it, or at least make your time useful and either build something from the article or explain why it's bad so others could learn to ignore more stuff that source

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