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by phendrenad2 1189 days ago
So wait, you're saying that people should just accept that headlines are uselessly hyperbolic, and either (A) click every one of them to see if they're worth your time or (B) never click any, to avoid "biting" and getting "baited"?

Eminently practical approach, but we can hope for a better world where this isn't necessary...
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yborg 1189 days ago
It seems that there is actually (C) somewhere in there, which would be "apply some judgement" i.e. look at the source, and maybe (D) let someone else on HN bite on it and get a synopsis there.
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phendrenad2 1188 days ago
Well for (C) I don't have time to memorize the "clickbaityness" of every single news outlet on the internet (of which there are probably hundreds of thousands), so that's a non-starter in reality. For (D) that seems like a practical solution, but now I have to read all of the top-level comments (of which there may be many), to see if one of them tells me if it's clickbait, before clicking on the article?

Hey, you know what, while we're assigning WORK to other HN members, why don't we just ask that people submitting science news do a little digging and find a non-clickbait headline? Why is that unacceptable, while your assertion is acceptable?

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