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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[-] Timetorelax@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

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.

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