[logifail]

> They do add value, they make clicks more likely

"Making clicks more likely" is a terrible measure of genuine value.

There are lots of images which will make people click, even if once they see your page they click 'Back' a second later. Our metrics are broken if we continue to attribute that click as 'success'.

[diggan]

> "Making clicks more likely" is a terrible measure of genuine value.

Genuine value, to who? For the author, getting more clicks is probably of "genuine value", depending on their goals for their writing. But seems most people are not writing and publishing stuff today because they think it provides value to others, but because they think it'll provide value to themselves somehow.