Difference Between News and Clickbait?
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Lately I have noticed the rise of Clickbait to unprecedented levels. These days you expect Clickbait to be plastered all over facebook, twitter etc. In fact there is so much out there that you no longer click any links on these sites, you simply do not trust you are going to read anything useful. I noticed CP is starting to add clickbait to its news section. A good example on today's CP news is "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" which is in fact a 3-4 paragraph article describing guys living in their cars, totally and utterly useless. Now I chose CP mainly because I enjoyed reading the news section and keeping up-to-date but you lose a persons trust once you start posting crap. Definition of ClickBait Clickbait Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Lately I have noticed the rise of Clickbait to unprecedented levels. These days you expect Clickbait to be plastered all over facebook, twitter etc. In fact there is so much out there that you no longer click any links on these sites, you simply do not trust you are going to read anything useful. I noticed CP is starting to add clickbait to its news section. A good example on today's CP news is "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" which is in fact a 3-4 paragraph article describing guys living in their cars, totally and utterly useless. Now I chose CP mainly because I enjoyed reading the news section and keeping up-to-date but you lose a persons trust once you start posting crap. Definition of ClickBait Clickbait Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
Do you mean as a news item, or as an add ? I doubt very much this is/was intentional, given the efforts that are already made at selecting ads[^]. Do you have a link on that specific item ? I can't seem to find it. OK, got it.[^] This is in the Insider, and you can expect some funny/unusual reads from there. If you only aim at _real_ news items, you should get into the news section. Plus I do not think that CP earns anything linking to the sites in the Insider posts, so I doubt that there is any behind the scenes "strategy" to drive you to clickbait sites.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Do you mean as a news item, or as an add ? I doubt very much this is/was intentional, given the efforts that are already made at selecting ads[^]. Do you have a link on that specific item ? I can't seem to find it. OK, got it.[^] This is in the Insider, and you can expect some funny/unusual reads from there. If you only aim at _real_ news items, you should get into the news section. Plus I do not think that CP earns anything linking to the sites in the Insider posts, so I doubt that there is any behind the scenes "strategy" to drive you to clickbait sites.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
Think I wrote my post in a mini rage after reading the emptiness of the content in that google employee article. I was mostly trying to aim at why on earth is there so many crap true contentless articles out there.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Think I wrote my post in a mini rage after reading the emptiness of the content in that google employee article. I was mostly trying to aim at why on earth is there so many crap true contentless articles out there.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
I get where you are coming from, but I also agree with Rage. Kent consistently uses the linked article title as the subject for his news posts, just as in Your worst enemy is yourself[^]. I don't see that as Clickbait. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Think I wrote my post in a mini rage after reading the emptiness of the content in that google employee article. I was mostly trying to aim at why on earth is there so many crap true contentless articles out there.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I get where you are coming from, but I also agree with Rage. Kent consistently uses the linked article title as the subject for his news posts, just as in Your worst enemy is yourself[^]. I don't see that as Clickbait. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
I think marketting your articles is something every writer has to do and thus an appealing title is good however the "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" [^] article is pretty much contentless. I've read both article's and the Your worst enemy is yourself is actually a well written article with decent content.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
Think I wrote my post in a mini rage
And you got an answer from the maxi Rage :-\
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Lately I have noticed the rise of Clickbait to unprecedented levels. These days you expect Clickbait to be plastered all over facebook, twitter etc. In fact there is so much out there that you no longer click any links on these sites, you simply do not trust you are going to read anything useful. I noticed CP is starting to add clickbait to its news section. A good example on today's CP news is "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" which is in fact a 3-4 paragraph article describing guys living in their cars, totally and utterly useless. Now I chose CP mainly because I enjoyed reading the news section and keeping up-to-date but you lose a persons trust once you start posting crap. Definition of ClickBait Clickbait Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
Think I wrote my post in a mini rage
And you got an answer from the maxi Rage :-\
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Lately I have noticed the rise of Clickbait to unprecedented levels. These days you expect Clickbait to be plastered all over facebook, twitter etc. In fact there is so much out there that you no longer click any links on these sites, you simply do not trust you are going to read anything useful. I noticed CP is starting to add clickbait to its news section. A good example on today's CP news is "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" which is in fact a 3-4 paragraph article describing guys living in their cars, totally and utterly useless. Now I chose CP mainly because I enjoyed reading the news section and keeping up-to-date but you lose a persons trust once you start posting crap. Definition of ClickBait Clickbait Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
The Insider has been carrying clickbait to maintain 10 articles/day on slow news days for a long time. :sigh: I've been flaming the worst examples for a while now; but other than the personal satisfaction haven't accomplished anything yet. :doh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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I get where you are coming from, but I also agree with Rage. Kent consistently uses the linked article title as the subject for his news posts, just as in Your worst enemy is yourself[^]. I don't see that as Clickbait. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
Thank you. I didn't see it as clickbait either - the title pretty much described the content. It certainly wasn't a "You won't believe what happens next" type of ick. I also try to avoid listicles and other irritating 'content' that's floating around these days.
TTFN - Kent
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The Insider has been carrying clickbait to maintain 10 articles/day on slow news days for a long time. :sigh: I've been flaming the worst examples for a while now; but other than the personal satisfaction haven't accomplished anything yet. :doh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Well, I do have Chris' permission to not be 10 items a day, I just haven't had to use it yet. Amusingly (to me), the two items in question weren't what I considered filler yesterday. This one I put in early in the day finding it amusing. The Simple Programmer one I thought had a good message against impostor syndrome. The items I considered filler were the monthly analysis of the Tiobe numbers, and the Comment Commentary (oh, and the Microsoft/Minecraft one that was incredibly short, and based on a rumour). Just more proof that one person's interesting subject is another's crap. As long as each person finds at least one item interesting in there each day, I don't see what the problem is. We have a huge community, with a wide range of interests: there is no way I can nail that Venn diagram all the time.
TTFN - Kent
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Lately I have noticed the rise of Clickbait to unprecedented levels. These days you expect Clickbait to be plastered all over facebook, twitter etc. In fact there is so much out there that you no longer click any links on these sites, you simply do not trust you are going to read anything useful. I noticed CP is starting to add clickbait to its news section. A good example on today's CP news is "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" which is in fact a 3-4 paragraph article describing guys living in their cars, totally and utterly useless. Now I chose CP mainly because I enjoyed reading the news section and keeping up-to-date but you lose a persons trust once you start posting crap. Definition of ClickBait Clickbait Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
guys living in their cars
Nothing new. When I worked at SAIC in San Diego/UTC in the 90s there were (perhaps) a dozen campers/RVs parked on the street (Campus Point Drive) 24/7. They'd shuffle around on street-cleaning days. A quick look on Goog Learth doesn't show any now. With a cafe and gym (for showers) on campus and a mall within walking distance, it's definitely feasable, at least for single men (as many developers are).
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Well, I do have Chris' permission to not be 10 items a day, I just haven't had to use it yet. Amusingly (to me), the two items in question weren't what I considered filler yesterday. This one I put in early in the day finding it amusing. The Simple Programmer one I thought had a good message against impostor syndrome. The items I considered filler were the monthly analysis of the Tiobe numbers, and the Comment Commentary (oh, and the Microsoft/Minecraft one that was incredibly short, and based on a rumour). Just more proof that one person's interesting subject is another's crap. As long as each person finds at least one item interesting in there each day, I don't see what the problem is. We have a huge community, with a wide range of interests: there is no way I can nail that Venn diagram all the time.
TTFN - Kent
Kent Sharkey wrote:
The Simple Programmer one I thought had a good message against impostor syndrome.
I'll take your word for that. After giving it my first ever double projectile vomit award for suckitude for the first few sentences I closed the tab with extreme prejudice.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt