I understand not wanting to "editorialize" the author's title, and it's even forbidden in some communities. That's fine, just include something in the text, or possibly append it to the end of the title in brackets. ie:

Scientists have unveiled the secret to long life using this one weird trick! [diet and exercise]

Probably 90% of articles I come across can be summarized in 1-2 sentences. I often find myself doing just that, in other people's posts, but putting it in the comments makes it far less visible.

Sources:

Please do not link your post to a source of a source. Sometimes I have to click 3 and 4 articles deep to find the original source. Many times they don't include the original source, or any other source to speak of, they just link back to their own publication a dozen fucking times. If you come across an article that links to another source, which also isn't the original source, and without adding meaningful context, just link to the original source, please.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As much as I dislike ai, this is why I enjoyed the short lived “Artifact” news website (Yahoo bought them out). Their feed had a feature where you could report a click bait title and it would use ai to turn it into a normal sentence. If enough people clicked it, that would become how it was seen by people. I really dislike people using the click bait title on the fediverse, but it’s a symptom of the internet today as a whole.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've got posts taken down because I made up a descriptive non clickbait title. The mods didn't like it.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have some examples?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 19 hours ago

No but you can search for "title" on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for other people's stories