Re:Why is America stuck with bad headlights?
by blaser-waffle on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:43AM
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> if they don't have their titles changed or URLs swapped, for not being exactly what certain people want, and other posts resurrected because the founder didn't get sufficient traffic.
Disingenuous headlines are a huge problem and are part of "spin" (aka marketing or propaganda effort).
All available research -- plus tons of anecdotal experience on /. or HN or reddit -- shows that people never read the links that are posted, and, if they did click the link, probably won't read 100% of it. Most people share links without reading articles as well.
The headline is what generates the controversy, and should reflect the actual or original content of the piece. I am okay with mods changing headlines to reflect that. I have no doubt this is a SV echo chamber -- but it's a news aggregator run by Y-combinator, what the hell did you expect?
Disingenuous headlines are a huge problem and are part of "spin" (aka marketing or propaganda effort).
All available research -- plus tons of anecdotal experience on /. or HN or reddit -- shows that people never read the links that are posted, and, if they did click the link, probably won't read 100% of it. Most people share links without reading articles as well.
The headline is what generates the controversy, and should reflect the actual or original content of the piece. I am okay with mods changing headlines to reflect that. I have no doubt this is a SV echo chamber -- but it's a news aggregator run by Y-combinator, what the hell did you expect?
See also: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2018/09/study-con...
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/how-people-read-online-...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-we-do...
http://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-facebook-commenters-on...