• 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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        8 months ago

        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”.