Timeline for Why was this question considered "big list?"
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| Aug 22, 2019 at 7:45 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | ... but in any case, discussion of whether the title is clickbait is utterly moot at this stage. It was relevant when the question was eligible for HNQ, which it no longer is. Unless you want to have a broader argument about how much precedent this should set for kicking clickbait out of the list, which should go on a separate thread. | |
| Aug 22, 2019 at 7:42 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @CortAmmon I'm glad you agree that the core test is subjective. Your question fails that subjective test, given that it tries to bait clicks. Hopefully you can understand the bias that comes from having written that title, and go beyond that? It's obviously not only my opinion. | |
| Aug 22, 2019 at 2:47 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @EmilioPisanty I think the test of "a tutorial on clickbait uses that phrasing" is going to capture a lot of valid questions. Myself, I like to define "clickbait" as things trying to bait clicks. | |
| Aug 22, 2019 at 1:29 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @knzhou That's a reductive and simplistic understanding of what clickbait is. As one way to test it, look for tutorials on how to write clickbait headlines, and count how many of them list "The best X" or "The most X" as examples. (spoiler: it's the overwhelming majority.) | |
| Aug 22, 2019 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1164326448368357381 | ||
| Aug 21, 2019 at 22:04 | comment | added | knzhou | @EmilioPisanty Unless you are defining "clickbait" as "anything interesting to people in general" -- in which case that's a rather radical thing to be arguing against. | |
| Aug 21, 2019 at 22:01 | comment | added | knzhou | @EmilioPisanty Clickbait is something deceptively trying to sound more interesting than it actually is. The existing title says exactly what the question is. It sounds interesting, because it is interesting. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 16:32 | comment | added | tpg2114 Mod | @G.Smith Feel free to flag those questions for moderator attention and we can look at it and remove it if warranted. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 3:17 | answer | added | ZeroTheHero | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 20:37 | comment | added | user204000 | @G.Smith Totally Agreed | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 20:07 | history | edited | AccidentalFourierTransform | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | G. Smith | I can’t remember the last time I thought one of the physics questions on the HNQ list deserved to be there. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 14:10 | answer | added | CGCampbell | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 12:21 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Regardless of whether this question is on-topic or not, it absolutely does not belong on the HNQ list. This is pure clickbait and a magnet for extremely low-quality votes. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 12:19 | comment | added | AccidentalFourierTransform | Are we supposed to upvote the answer with the most precise measurement, and downvote the rest? | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 7:53 | answer | added | QmechanicMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 6:03 | history | asked | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |