Clickbait Article Titles
Discussions center on whether a Hacker News submission's title is clickbait, with users criticizing sensational headlines that mislead or hype content while others defend them for driving engagement and upvotes.
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The article's title seems clickbaity and out of touch.
Many of us upvote seemingly useful titles before reading the article. This one turned out to be clickbait.
Both the article's title and its contents line up with what you're saying. I'm not seeing any clickbait here, save for perhaps the HN title.
It’s so the article can have a clickbait title.
Clickbait titles gets criticism because some people won't read beyond the title
In other words, the title is very clickbaity.
The article content doesn't really support the clickbait title.
Interesting article, but the title is pure clickbaiting.
Yup, the title is clickbaity, but the actual article interesting.
The clickbait headline put me off, but it's actually quite well reasoned.