Clickbait is bad.
This is double clickbait.
You open the Lemmy post and it’s just a link to another thing. So I still don’t know what the clickbait refers to. I have to open two layers to figure that out.
You didn’t scroll at all, did you? Pluralistic is a well known blog. The content is just past the links at the top.
I didn’t open the link. I opened the Lemmy post to figure out what the clickbait was about, but since it didn’t illuminate that I didn’t click on the link.
I think that’s reasonable to do, especially inside of Lemmy.
It sounds like you’re encouraging the poster to include a brief summary of the article vs duplicating the title in the summary. Something like,
The [American] Consumer Finance Protection Bureau … has proposed new rules limiting the trade between brokers and bureaux, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, putting strict restrictions on the transfer of information between the two.
Yes! Exactly. Very well put.
Providing proper context to helps us make decisions about what data we consume. Clickbait is the opposite, it’s engineered to make you interested, but not satisfy the TLDR.
I won’t click on a site if it has clickbaity headlines because I already know that it’s light fluffy stories with no meat. I happen to already subscribe to pluralsite on my RSS feed, so I knew what the story was all about. Aren’t there bots here that will visit links and provide a TL;DR summary so that I know if it’s worth the click?
Maybe click on the link next time and avoid this altogether? I’m using Connect and had no issues “figuring out” the content of the post. Clickbait would also imply that the content behind the title is dubious but I’ve never once experienced that with Pluralistic. I recommend giving them a read whenever you see a link to their site with a title that draws your attention. They’re a high-quality source in my opinion.
If the HTML anchor had been included (#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does), it might have been a bit more clear.
