• TauZero
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    1 year ago

    What a disgusting clickbait title 🤮. The comet is not “racing towards Earth” any more than say Mars is (and Mars comes closer to Earth than this comet will). Maybe some day we’ll live in a world where journalists do not sensationalize headlines with a mix of Deep Impact and The Ninth Gate, but today is not that day.

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      1 year ago

      On Mander, fighting the clickbait pop science menace is every citizen’s duty. Are you doing your part?

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        1 year ago

        I think they are. I checked the comments before clicking on the article and that comment prevented me from rewarding that clickbaiter.

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          The poster is just submitting the article as titled, and the scientists are just making cool observations not bothering anyone. The fault for clickbait lies solely with the journalists/editors. I wish instead of continuing the practice from that other site of “submission title must match article title”, we normalize the culture of writing our own plain language de-clickbait-ified titles, the way HackerNews does it.

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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      Most science news and YT science channels are nothing but clickbait shit unfortunately. Would be probably my favorite topic but I just can’t stand its presentation.