The Angry at "Clickbait" Thread

abzo said:
Follow your own forum rules and use the source title of the articles you copy instead of generating clickbait.
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The mybb headline is exactly what's in the Blomberg article?
“This action was taken because of sustained poor performance by these plants, which require investigation pending disciplinary action,” Eskom said.
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Hardly clickbait. If your issue is them not using the original headline, fine - but this is a mild thing to be complaining about.
 
saor said:
The mybb headline is exactly what's in the Blomberg article?
Hardly clickbait. If your issue is them not using the original headline, fine - but this is a mild thing to be complaining about.
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That is his complaint. He is angry because they not using the same heading as the source of their information.

Edit: apologies, I am wrong. See now the clickbait and them spreading false information. Missed that)
 
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saor said:
The mybb headline is exactly what's in the Blomberg article?
Hardly clickbait. If your issue is them not using the original headline, fine - but this is a mild thing to be complaining about.
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Where does Bloomberg say anything about anyone being fired? No one has been fired, they’ve been suspended.
 
abzo said:
Where does Bloomberg say anything about anyone being fired? No one has been fired, they’ve been suspended.
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Ah ok. I missed that. Fair enough then - I agree the journo shouldn't have done that as it is a difference.
 
abzo said:
Don’t argue for the sake of it. Mybb have now changed their article title to reflect the story and removed their clickbait title.
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(my apologies, I missed that last heading clickbait)

But now what we gonna click on. :( Who wants to click on accurate information.

Maybe report them to the Source?
 
You are also aware that news websites can buy articles from other sources and have them on their own site. Kind of like the example you're using. Depending on the rules of the purchase you can have it exactly the way it is or you can add your own editorialised headline/sub-headline. Pretty common practice. N24, IOL, EWN, ENCA, pretty much everyone does this.
 
HumanShield said:
You are also aware that news websites can buy articles from other sources and have them on their own site. Kind of like the example you're using. Depending on the rules of the purchase you can have it exactly the way it is or you can add your own editorialised headline/sub-headline. Pretty common practice. N24, IOL, EWN, ENCA, pretty much everyone does this.
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The issue is the changing of facts.
Suspended ≠ fired.
If the article is about a red truck, mybb can't post the headline saying it's a blue truck.
 
Well since my post got deleted... only 10% of clients affected.

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I've commented a number of times that articles didn't match the headline. I thought they were just badly written - it never occurred to me that it was deliberate. Why does MyBB produce articles that make the site look less professional? I commented coz I actually thought I was helping MyBB, my favourite website!
 
I'm not being allowed to point out how misleading and/or how useless some of the articles are. Below is a screenshot of a post I made which was not approved on the "Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter’s load-shedding disaster" article. Would be VERY interesting to know what is wrong with it... especially when so many quite obvious racist posts are allowed...

I was hoping that commenting would help MyBB improve, but it's been a while now and it's clearly getting worse. I will now make a point to advise everyone I know to avoid the site and ask those people to advise people they know to do the same.

The fearmongering, hit pieces, and click bait sensationalism is almost certainly contributing to the worsening public discourse.


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Nic_s said:
I'm not being allowed to point out how misleading and/or how useless some of the articles are. Below is a screenshot of a post I made which was not approved on the "Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter’s load-shedding disaster" article. Would be VERY interesting to know what is wrong with it... especially when so many quite obvious racist posts are allowed...

I was hoping that commenting would help MyBB improve, but it's been a while now and it's clearly getting worse. I will now make a point to advise everyone I know to avoid the site and ask those people to advise people they know to do the same.

The fearmongering, hit pieces, and click bait sensationalism is almost certainly contributing to the worsening public discourse.
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Thank you for taking the time to comment.

Please report racist posts and they will be dealt with. We have filters and stuff set up, but they don't always catch everything.

The comment moderation queue is attended to at regular intervals. I see your comment was posted about an hour ago... Your comment will be attended to in due course and posting about it on the forum will not get you special treatment.

You are welcome to get your news elsewhere. That's the beauty of a highly competitive marketplace - which news journalism in South Africa most certainly is.

We'll endeavour to continue doing our best and you are always welcome here, but you are also welcome to leave and give your valuable attention to other news publications.

I feel that the criticism of De Ruyter based on hard data is contributing to healthy public discourse rather than harming it.

When he (and his team) does well, we'll call it out:

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Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter’s incredible achievement

Andre de Ruyter has achieved something that no other Eskom CEO over the past fifteen years could do.
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When he (and his team) fail, we'll call that out too.

Always based on data and not emotion — that's my aim, anyway.
 
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