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• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I could, but it’s a perfectly valid line of conversation to critique a post’s title.

  I don’t think laziness is a valid line of criticism. I also find it strange to critique a title separate from its intended context.

  we have the saying, “Always judge a book by its cover, and judge a response by it’s grammar”

  I don’t think that’s a very common idiom. It seems to imply that pedantry is more important than substance.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It seems to imply that pedantry is more important than substance.

    It’s certainly more common; I mean, we’re on a social media platform that incentivises it.

    For the vast majority of people DooM scrolling these days, they want a quick dopamine hit. And influencers want those upvotes in quantity, not quality.

    Knowing that the defacto message of a given post is its headline, we need to have a conversation about proper standards and dark patterns.

    Click baiting isn’t the kind of baiting for which I came to the internet, and it doesn’t keep me coming again, so why put up with it?

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol, you can’t confirm it’s click bait unless you read the article…

      None of your critiques are valid, as the substance of the article is congruent with the messaging in the title.

      You’re just being lazy.

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      • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not just being lazy; I’m providing justification for my laziness. We should be calling out clickbaiters and other manipulators, not taking them as part and parcel to online discourse

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