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Re:HackerNews Grid by Unknoob on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:36AM (#15082336)
> "Over time, it'll be more about how good a thumbnail looks, rather than the curiosity of a title that lures you into the content."

This makes it sound like clickbait is a better option than flashy thumbnails, but it's essentially the same bullshit.

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Re:HackerNews Grid by smhenderson on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:13PM (#15083749)
Clickbait text loads a lot faster and is easier for me to mentally sift through than thumbnails. Agree they're both BS though!
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Re:HackerNews Grid by abhi3 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:01PM (#15082575)
But at least most of us here have by now trained ourselves to be mostly immune to click bait. Don't want to go through the same process again but with misleading thumbnails this time.
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