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I don't discredit them but I often avoid them, both because they give me no reason to watch/read them, and also just out of spite.
If something is obvious click bait I do the same, but many legit authors use clickbait because it's needed in this attention economy.
(see the video link I posted above)
I saw the video you posted when it was published several years ago. I don't care why they do it.
Your own posts have clickbaity titles.
https://piefed.social/u/artyom
It's sadly basically unavoidable
Why don't more distros use this method? (click here and find out)
No they don't.
It's absolutely not. Even if it were, including context when sharing third party links is also not unavoidable.
You can't click it and find out, because I don't know. It was a genuine question. There's a picture explaining exactly what I'm talking about. I don't make money using this account, I have no motivation to use clickbait.
I agree adding context is great, ideally even add a summary so a person doesn't have to click.
"You can click it and find out." How is that not clickbait?
Read it again. You missed a letter.
Oh my bad lol, didn't have a close enough look at that post