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Could we ban clickbait titles in posts? (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by KyoStarr@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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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?

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[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] KyoStarr@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Bots hate these 5 moderator tricks

[–] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Mods vote no! Reason #4 will shock you!!

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] KyoStarr@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

This would also be helpful

[–] Whiskeyomega@kbin.social 3 points 10 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@kbin.social 2 points 10 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@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who has time for that?

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

People who want to serve their audience.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 10 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.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The great part about Lemmy is I'm pretty sure we can even edit titles after they've been made. So no need to resubmit