Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these . . . I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. . . .

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s clickbait . . .

    Your words, my emphasis.

    • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it’s a subset of clickbait.

        Wikipedia:

        Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers’ anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory “headlines”, memes, tropes, or comments.

        • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.