• Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOP
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      The headline is 6 words. The article is 3,606 words. Expressed as a percentage, the amount of content you have decided to address comes to a grand total of 0.16%.

      If you have no interest in interacting with the content, it would be simple enough to state that. But to dismiss the entirety of the article based on 0.16% of the content seems rather short sighted to me. Do you have any thoughts to share about the article?

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        Nah, I’m allergic to clickbait. If it had a better, more serious title, I’d read it.

        If you’re the author of the article, you have to find that line between interesting and clickbait. Sensationalist titles like that are like smearing a distasteful substance on the cover of a book. No matter what you write in that book, I’m not picking it up.

        Possible titles (without even reading the article) that would make me click with an open mind

        • Threats to the open web
        • How much has the web changed since $date?
        • Where does the web go after $event?
        • The future of the web - an opinion
        • How do monopolies affect the internet?

        CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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          That’s more like it, this is a discussion that people can actually interact with! I am not the author, and I agree with you that the title isn’t great, but I am interested in discussing what they wrote and appreciate that you’ve now at least opened the door to a discussion on clickbait titles rather than just leaving a one sentence “gotcha”.

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      Dude. The 4th sentence of the page you linked says it doesn’t apply to this type of open ended question.

      The only possible answer to this (admittedly silly) headline is, “it depends what you mean by die”. An answer yes or no could easily be rebutted.

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        The adage does not apply to questions that are more open-ended than strict yes–no questions.

        But this is a strict yes-no question

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          Did you not bother to read the 3rd and 4th sentence of my comment?

          The question is open ended. It’s subjective, dependent on the definition of “die”. It’s not answerable with merely yes or no.