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?

  • HarkMahlberg
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    711 months ago

    Agreed. And if you want to “get to the meat” of the article, make a comment or edit the subheading with that meat.

    Title: This classic gem title is being added to Nintendo Switch Online

    OP comment: Its Jet Force Gemini.

    • conciselyverbose
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      211 months ago

      That is absolutely not an acceptable title for a post. It’s egregious clickbait.

      This classic gem title [Jet Force Gemini] is being added to Nintendo Switch Online

      Is fine. Leaving the title as is should be one warning then a ban.

      • HarkMahlberg
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        11 months ago

        Calm down. I’m literally using OP’s example to illustrate my point.

        Also, a ban? Lmao. This was literally a rule on both /r/news and /r/games to prevent people from editorializing titles.

        • conciselyverbose
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          111 months ago

          Yes, a ban. Clickbait titles are not, under any circumstances, acceptable behavior. Without a correctly descriptive title, literally everything becomes spam. There is no level of quality that can offset it.

          If you add the “keep the original title” rule, then it should be unacceptable to post that article (even though I gave an easy example of how to fix it without changing anything). The publication having a clickbait title does not ever make you sharing that title OK.