I do appreciate that a lot I've seen have text of the lists they link. So I just have to read the post and not open the link.
I do agree that there are far too many click bait articles posted here though.
True, i like that the bait stays in the title and that there's no need to file the link.
I find it almost interesting to see that those lists come up with.
Yeah, really hit and miss haha.
I think this is definitely in my top 10 commentaries
I dunno, I see regular interaction with the posts, so I'd say they do the job of stimulating conversation at least.
It's something I leaned into more when the community was new as it is a handy way of getting people up speed and sparking discussion but, especially, with Halloween looming, every news outlet seems to be posting some kind of listicle and they are all feeling a bit... samey.
I did have an idea a while back for a semi-regular feature called "Build your own listicle" where someone posts a theme and we throw in suggestions to come up with our own. Partly inspired by the excellent recommendations everyone has made in replies to listicles before which are far superior to the actual article (one good thing about posting such links). So why not skip the article and jump straight to the recommendations?
edit: it's the kind of thing being done here.
There are a lot of well meaning but annoying bots here who automate posting tons of links, but the problem is there's no quality control so the good submissions get buried in a lot of low quality noise.
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