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by zamadatix 1189 days ago
I always thought a set of satirical articles like "Mayor Slams Opponents on Support of Budget Cuts" which then go into said mayor being in custody for assault charges or other similarly overly literal interpretations of the original meaning would be good fun. Well, it probably exists I just haven't seen them yet :).

It's great headlines aren't using the overly technical description (that honestly doesn't help much either) but it is a bit depressing the reason for doing so is "nobody clicks those" not "it could be made clearer to the average person" so we end up with things that are so vague you have no clue what it could actually be about yet is written to ensure it should be interesting enough for you to click. After that they don't really care what you get out of it, you've loaded another article and ads instead of leaving. This article actually bucks the trends a bit by being decent enough with what content is in the body at least.