• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    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?

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    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOP
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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”.