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by solarkraft 1927 days ago
"Engaging" while being highly irritating. The first one is concise.
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True, but which is more likely to get your click: a headline you're indifferent to, or a headline that fills you with righteous indignation? I think that if there's one thing that the development of social media has taught us about human nature, it's that any emotion is better than boredom, from an engagement standpoint.