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a-priori on Jan 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Roll your own LinkBait headline

Needs more question marks. You can get away with any title, no matter how bogus, if you make it a question.

DanielBMarkham on Jan 17, 2011 [–]

Really?

a-priori on Jan 17, 2011 | [–]

I was joking, of course, but this is something you see with linkbait blog posts quite a lot. The title is an outrageous question that gets people to click on it, then the body is a mundane argument why the question is false.

Title: "Is Steve Jobs really an alien?"

Body: No, he's not.

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