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Offline CC27

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Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« on: September 22, 2015, 10:18:32 AM »
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Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU


There are many, many websites on the Internet that pretend to be news sites. Their writers find stories in legitimate news media and then punch them up with sensational speculative content and headlines to attract attention. A good example is trueactivist.com. Even huffingtonpost.com uses sensational, hyperbolic headlines and speculation to attract people to link to that site, so they'll see all the ads that have made Ariana Huffington wealthy. Why do we support such websites?

You can recognize these websites from their sensationalism. Headlines that create fear or loathing or extreme reactions to the news of the day are their bait. Why use these sites, which are designed only to earn clicks for their owners? Why not go see what a legitimate news source has to say about the subject? Usually, there's a link in the stores at these clickbait site that will take you to the same source their hyperbolic writers used. Why not go there and then link to the legitimate, original source on DU?

Before linking on DU to a site, look at the other stories that site features. Are they listed with sensational headlines? If so, then you're on a clickbait website. Why not go away from there and let Google lead you to an original source? Why lead DUers to inaccurate, overblown stories on clickbait websites?

Thanks for reading this post.

What the hell clickbait? Is that like porn that colesdempervert is tempted to look at?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027191964
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2015, 10:23:54 AM »
Silly, stupid DUmmy.

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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2015, 10:35:27 AM »
Gosh dolt,have you seen Yahoos news page?
It is endless clickbait from huffpo,Daily Beast,Vox and all the other leftist tripe.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2015, 11:27:46 AM »
I've seen two varieties of what I'd call clickbait. There's the sites that use hyperbole-laden link text to get people to click on the link, and see what turns out to be mundane or nothing-burger story. And then there's the satire sites who, unlike The Onion use site names that sound like they are a straight-forward new site (or who even create sites with names that sound like the sites of MSM sources).

I recently had two FB friend who, independently of each other, "Shared" fake news stories, one saying that Kim Davis had been given a Courage award by Isis, and the other a story that the founders of Snopes had been arrested for aiding terrorism. I wonder ... did some DU folk bite on and post the Kim Davis story?
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2015, 12:32:45 PM »
Both sides engage in "click baiting".  Drudge is a leading example on the right.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2015, 01:39:57 PM »
I'v seen DUmmies link to "sensationalized" stories about white cops and black thugs.  Go to the site and then follow more links or search for a legitimate news site, and you find that 99% of the story the DUmmie posted was fiction or speculation.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2015, 08:09:42 PM »
Be curious to see this turds' list of actual news sites.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2015, 08:17:00 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 22, 2015, 01:39:57 PM
I'v seen DUmmies link to "sensationalized" stories about white cops and black thugs.  Go to the site and then follow more links or search for a legitimate news site, and you find that 99% of the story the DUmmie posted was fiction or speculation.

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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2015, 09:02:24 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on September 22, 2015, 12:32:45 PM
Both sides engage in "click baiting".  Drudge is a leading example on the right.

Not disagreeing with you.
My experience isn't the same.
All the headlines I have linked to( on Drudge) have been born out by the full story.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2015, 06:29:25 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 22, 2015, 01:39:57 PM
I'v seen DUmmies link to "sensationalized" stories about white cops and black thugs.  Go to the site and then follow more links or search for a legitimate news site, and you find that 99% of the story the DUmmie posted was fiction or speculation.

More broadly, but along the same lines,  since my post yesterday AM (my time) I've been wondering whether/where sites like MMfA actually fit into my two clickbait varieties. MMfA's hate-Rush, etc. faux-poses' certainly hyper-hype each  faux-pose', but they are also, every time I've checked out what Rush (or whomever) actually said/did, false. So in those senses MMfA could fit in either of my two varieties. But MMfA  type people could not possibly, IMO, not know their  faux-poses' are thoroughly dishonest. So they display a kind of malice that is distinct from ad-traffic or partisan urban-legend-wannabe clickbaiters.

The BLM-thugs' phony stories are of the same cloth as MMfA types'  faux-poses', IMO, though I think at least some BLM-thugs are too stupid to rise (tunnel down?) to  the kind of malicious deception MMfA offers up.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2015, 06:36:41 AM »
Quote from: Carl on September 22, 2015, 10:35:27 AM
Gosh dolt,have you seen Yahoos news page?
It is endless clickbait from huffpo,Daily Beast,Vox and all the other leftist tripe.

I think Yahoo has algorithms in the SW underlying their news page that "learns" the interests of the user(s) of a particular computer and selects many of the listed stories to fit those interests. Like Google's ad-selecting SW, Yahoo's doesn't seem to sense a user's POV, so many listed stories are of opposite POV of users whose interests were sensed. IOW, if it's any comfort, DU-folks see a lot of stories from Fox News on their personalized Yahoo News pages.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2015, 09:27:06 AM »
Quote from: SVPete on September 23, 2015, 06:36:41 AM
I think Yahoo has algorithms in the SW underlying their news page that "learns" the interests of the user(s) of a particular computer and selects many of the listed stories to fit those interests. Like Google's ad-selecting SW, Yahoo's doesn't seem to sense a user's POV, so many listed stories are of opposite POV of users whose interests were sensed. IOW, if it's any comfort, DU-folks see a lot of stories from Fox News on their personalized Yahoo News pages.
Hell, I used my friend's laptop recently.  Used to use it almost daily.  It still puts up ads for Gearhart Chevrolet.
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Re: Sensationalist Clickbait Websites and DU
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2015, 11:13:46 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on September 23, 2015, 09:27:06 AM
Hell, I used my friend's laptop recently.  Used to use it almost daily.  It still puts up ads for Gearhart Chevrolet.

You could have done worse. Imagine had you used it to research "furries" ...
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