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Clickbait:

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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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You didn‘t say the name either. 😭

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I just made up a typical clickbait headline, I wasn't talking about any game in particular...

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

No you didn‘t. This was an actual title of a thread in the largest game community the other day. I don‘t remember the title either, though.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 10 hours ago

If it was it was a complete coincidence, I literally just pulled something clickbaity out of my ass to illustrate the point. Just tells you how similar and boilerplate these headlines are becoming, though.