The Angry at "Clickbait" Thread

backstreetboy said:
BusinessTech Daily: January 26
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When people see that headline, will they know what content the will find in the article? Hence, will they be able to decide whether to read the article or not based on the headline?

Remember that not everyone is a daily reader.
 
I see a lot of people here sounds like our corporate overlords throwing the latest buzz word without any clue wtf it means.

"Clickbait" - very few of you call this one correctly.

If you ask me RPM's companies/holdings mybb and businesstech are still light years better than some of the "reputable" international sites where I constantly see crap like this:

You’ll Never Guess Why

Big Companies Hate Him

What We Found Was Shocking

We All Know It, But The Way He Said It…

Etc

Whereas here at least when I read the article I have a good idea what the article is about (granted there was a few articles where what the headline said/indicated and what the actual article was about was a bit far fetched, but that doesn't happen often)
 
rpm said:
When people see that headline, will they know what content the will find in the article? Hence, will they be able to decide whether to read the article or not based on the headline?

Remember that not everyone is a daily reader.
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Yes they'll get the jist of it from that. It'll be like a daily wrap-up and if they like it they'll come back. That's how you make money on the comeback.

The flipside is you can make it more clickbaity:

5 things you need to know in South Africa today - #3 will blow your mind.
 
rubber_otter said:
lol nvm
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Thank you for admitting to starting the "clickbait" complaint trend.

The council of elders will now convene to decide your punishment.

So far, the popular option seems to be "walk the plank" into crocodile-infested waters. Well, that's Bob's suggestion. (He watches a lot of movies.)
 
Kevin Lancaster said:
Thank you for admitting to starting the "clickbait" complaint trend.

The council of elders will now convene to decide your punishment.

So far, the popular option seems to be "walk the plank" into crocodile-infested waters. Well, that's Bob's suggestion. (He watches a lot of movies.)
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Sooooo.. you admit to being a bunch of toppies?
 
rpm said:
This thread is only aimed at MyBroadband articles. BusinessTech does not monitor the forum.
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But isn't Businesstech also your website?

If no one is going to take action on these complaints why are Businesstech then still posting article links here?
 
rpm said:
This thread is only aimed at MyBroadband articles. BusinessTech does not monitor the forum.
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The problem is with whoever just copy a vague headline from BusinessTech to Mybb. If you give some more info (quote from the article) people might be interested and click. But at the moment it mysterious, vague on purpose, so click bait.
 
Pitbull said:
But isn't Businesstech also your website?
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It is part of the business, but BusinessTech is editorially independent. Just ignore the BusinessTech forum if it frustrates you (putting the BT user in your ignore list will work).
 
rpm said:
It is part of the business, but BusinessTech is editorially independent. Just ignore the BusinessTech forum if it frustrates you (putting the BT user in your ignore list will work).
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Would prefer to be able to ignore them so that their posts aren't visible when I click 'New Posts'.
Is that possible?
 
saor said:
I've never really seen anyone from mybb respond to complaints about businesstech.
Clickbait obviously works for businesstech and they're sticking with it.
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Probably receive an infraction via private message from someone in the know causing detractors to be less vocal?
 
rpm said:
It is part of the business, but BusinessTech is editorially independent. Just ignore the BusinessTech forum if it frustrates you (putting the BT user in your ignore list will work).
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But that's counter productive aint it?

I like some of their articles and that is the reason I go read them. You are now saying I should not read ANY because we have issues with some of the click bait articles you have control over? Ok, will put them on ignore.
 
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