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Lately I have noticed the rise of Clickbait to unprecedented levels. These days you expect Clickbait to be plastered all over facebook, twitter etc. In fact there is so much out there that you no longer click any links on these sites, you simply do not trust you are going to read anything useful.
I noticed CP is starting to add clickbait to its news section. A good example on today's CP news is "Google's Perks Are So Amazing That Employees Have Found Ways To Secretly Live On Campus And Avoid Paying Rent" which is in fact a 3-4 paragraph article describing guys living in their cars, totally and utterly useless. Now I chose CP mainly because I enjoyed reading the news section and keeping up-to-date but you lose a persons trust once you start posting crap.
Definition of ClickBait
Clickbait
Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Do you mean as a news item, or as an add ? I doubt very much this is/was intentional, given the efforts that are already made at selecting ads[^].
Do you have a link on that specific item ? I can't seem to find it. OK, got it.[^]
This is in the Insider, and you can expect some funny/unusual reads from there. If you only aim at _real_ news items, you should get into the news section.
Plus I do not think that CP earns anything linking to the sites in the Insider posts, so I doubt that there is any behind the scenes "strategy" to drive you to clickbait sites.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
modified 10-Sep-14 4:07am.
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Think I wrote my post in a mini rage after reading the emptiness of the content in that google employee article. I was mostly trying to aim at why on earth is there so many crap true contentless articles out there.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I get where you are coming from, but I also agree with Rage. Kent consistently uses the linked article title as the subject for his news posts, just as in Your worst enemy is yourself[^]. I don't see that as Clickbait.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Thank you.
I didn't see it as clickbait either - the title pretty much described the content. It certainly wasn't a "You won't believe what happens next" type of ick.
I also try to avoid listicles and other irritating 'content' that's floating around these days.
TTFN - Kent
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote: Think I wrote my post in a mini rage
And you got an answer from the maxi Rage 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: And you got an answer from the maxi MegaRage
FTFY 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Rage wrote: Think I wrote my post in a mini rage
Thanks. Now you've pointed out that rage in that sentence could be read as a Noun, I now have a totally different picture of what is conveyed in that sentence.
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You should definitely ask Chris for your money back.
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The Insider has been carrying clickbait to maintain 10 articles/day on slow news days for a long time. 
I've been flaming the worst examples for a while now; but other than the personal satisfaction haven't accomplished anything yet. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, I do have Chris' permission to not be 10 items a day, I just haven't had to use it yet.
Amusingly (to me), the two items in question weren't what I considered filler yesterday. This one I put in early in the day finding it amusing. The Simple Programmer one I thought had a good message against impostor syndrome. The items I considered filler were the monthly analysis of the Tiobe numbers, and the Comment Commentary (oh, and the Microsoft/Minecraft one that was incredibly short, and based on a rumour).
Just more proof that one person's interesting subject is another's crap. As long as each person finds at least one item interesting in there each day, I don't see what the problem is. We have a huge community, with a wide range of interests: there is no way I can nail that Venn diagram all the time.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The Simple Programmer one I thought had a good message against impostor syndrome.
I'll take your word for that. After giving it my first ever double projectile vomit award for suckitude for the first few sentences I closed the tab with extreme prejudice.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote: guys living in their cars
Nothing new. When I worked at SAIC in San Diego/UTC in the 90s there were (perhaps) a dozen campers/RVs parked on the street (Campus Point Drive) 24/7. They'd shuffle around on street-cleaning days. A quick look on Goog Learth doesn't show any now.
With a cafe and gym (for showers) on campus and a mall within walking distance, it's definitely feasable, at least for single men (as many developers are).
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"Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for example, makes it pleasant at this time of year."(6,6)
I like this one.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Let's hope it lasts past half-term.
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INDIAN SUMMER
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is an Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his mathematical theory of black holes.
Very clever chappie indeed!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I am finally going to take the plunge and get a pad computer. What I would really, really like to get as an accessory is a "purse" (here, I define a "purse" as a small bag that I can strap around my shoulders) that would allow me to simply open up the "purse" and start using the pad, but while the pad is still attached to the "purse". This would essentially remove the chance of the pad being dropped or stolen. Every "purse" I have seen @ Amazon seems to be a regular purse in which the pad can fit, but to use the pad, the pad would need to be taken out completely. It just seems that this would be a great way to do such a "purse" so I figure someone has already put this product out. Thanks.
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I've not seen anything like that before.
It might be better if you google for "messenger bag".
I like the TUMI[^] brand.
I have been using a TUMI laptop bag for a long while with only simple normal wear and tear.
I also have a barbour[^] bag; it's nice, but probably not what you are looking for.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I use a FREITAG[^] messenger bag and I'm very happy with it. They produce usable and durable bags, and I only can recommend you to get one.
The console is a black place
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Finding the purse is easy enough, but be prepared to have to spend some time on finding matching shoes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So I'm dying to go to the loo - but it's occupied. Been occupied for hours - and I can hear the rustle of a newspaper in the stall.
Bastard.
So I shut off the light and ran!
I'm in so much trouble if I get caught - if the guy's muscles are as big as his dumps.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Duck around to my place and grab one of the joe blakes... Drop it over the stall and vamoose!!
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