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Anybody else annoyed by news headlines being predominantly clickbaity now? (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

Yeah I made c/savedyouaclick in the hope of getting people de-clickbaiting stories, but I was the only poster afaict. I wonder if calling it newssummararies could help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How do you "do" c/savedyouaclick? I've summarized links in a comment before, but I don't know what would be the point of also mentioning c/savedyouaclick when I do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

See the existing posts there, I guess, or look at the reddit version. I agree that there's not much point in cross linking it unless there's a significant discussion thread for that post. But reddit got those sometimes.

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