Recently we had a 'clickbait' scam pulled by someone posting about their web site with a blatantly wrong title: Toyota Dumps Prius As Sales Collapse By Douglas A. McIntyre July 3, 2016 | PriusChat Misleading Headline | PriusChat Once is not a trend but neither was the first SPAM. I also realize folks have not had a chance to really mull this over. But it was kinda of new to me (in my sheltered life.) So my question is: Do you want a "report" when this shows up or a treat it like a slice of SPAM tossed into a piranha tank? Bob Wilson
Click baits are the next thing to filter on the Internet. Facebook already started filtering clickbaits. I've mentally trained myself to not click on titles with "you won't believe, jaw dropping, they don't what you to know, nasty surprise, etc." There's actually a list of clickbait phrases publishers use to increase traffic to their page. I don't click on anything from Motley Fool, BGR.com, and Forbes.com, and I will add 247wallst.
bob, i'm not following you. are you saying these priuschat members might have ulterior motive's? i thought the click bait was the original headlines outside of priuschat. tried it with, 'you won't believe these pictures of the titanic'. unfortunately, i did believe them and had seen them all previously. but there's so much advertising, it takes forever to see even one, and you wind up leaving.
SPAM and 'clickbait' both work to similar economic models ... getting something for nothing. SPAM is trying to dilute content with solicitations for purchase and click-bait is trying to scam advertisers by getting folks to leave our forum to put 'eyes on' the click-bait site. SPAM is handled by deleting. I'm wondering if click-bait should be treated the same way? Of course there is the entertainment value from ripping their nonsense apart. Bob Wilson
Clickbait is especially challenging on this forum as there are many shades of grey. There are some new and even well established priuschat members who may post such just for the sensationalist or antagonist reaction but have nothing in particular to want marketed on the linked site. Heck, even advertising algorithms are doing it autonomously now such as with the auto link to an unrelated book/movie in my last post here. Sometimes it is even in jest, and depending on ones personal politics may be received well or poorly by others.
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