I feel like there’s been a glut of clickbait articles being submitted lately. It would be nice if these posts could be taken down and allow the user to resubmit it with a more accurate title?

  • Tiritibambix
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    116 months ago

    The decision the mods are going to take will leave you speechless.

  • @spacecowboy
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    56 months ago

    It should also require a summary in the body of the post.

  • Whiskeyomega
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    36 months ago

    I only joined the mag as a mod 2 weeks ago but i havent seen too many clickbaity titles. Got rid of 1 anyway. I try not to post it if its like that and I post the full body description.

  • ampersandrew
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    26 months ago

    Got examples? I feel like there were a handful of users submitting the offending articles, probably a site that user is affiliated with, and because the moderators had no rules against it, I just ended up having to block those users. I’m not seeing a lot of clickbait, personally.

  • Timetorelax
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    06 months ago

    It’s automated copy and paste generated titles from the article, nothing clickbait

    • AnonTwo
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      56 months ago

      You can actually change the title when you post a link from a site though.

    • conciselyverbose
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      36 months ago

      lol no one is claiming the users are turning it into clickbait.

      Almost all clickbait titles are written by the website it’s posted on. And 99.9999% of titles of an article about a game that don’t include the name of the game are clickbait.