Meta cross post: Should we, the moderators, start moderating posts that use clickbait style titles in order to improve the quality of submission titles?

DaNiceguy · 2014-11-23T18:29:07+00:00

It's up to the community to police itself in this regard. Members need to take some responsibility for what they upvote and downvote.

DougDante · 2014-11-23T13:40:19+00:00

No, because they work.

This. This so much has received a net of over 3,000 upvotes, made it into /r/all and probably the front page, and caused much consternation among our friends in /r/againstmensrights (see: "/r/mr shirtpost hits /r/all". do not vote there. No, I will not link)

Don't click on them if you don't like them.

Also, as a moderator of different subreddits, this is just another thing I don't want to deal with.

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-11-23T21:05:46+00:00

As annoying as i find those fucking things, if they work, they work.

rg57 · 2014-11-24T03:49:45+00:00

Yes. This is long overdue. The title should say SOMETHING about what the content actually is.

superstevelive · 2014-11-23T14:31:19+00:00

konous · 2014-11-24T14:53:57+00:00

I have no problem with us reviewing and even commenting on shit that is "click bait" because honestly, we need to stay informed of the perception the Feminist movement is trying to paint us as.

On the other hand, I don't like giving their advertisers cash, so I'll say that we should put http://archive.today/ in the side bar and maybe some new rule that anything that could be deemed as Click Bait needs to be either used with the Don't Link or Archive.

therealmasculistman · 2014-11-24T02:51:02+00:00

What is clickbait?

modern_rabbit · 2014-11-24T09:27:03+00:00

If the article is good but the title is misleading, should that be an upvote or downvote?

genmischief · 2014-11-24T14:40:02+00:00

I think that would be pretty time consuming to filter and enforce.

So much content that flows through here IS provocative and click-baity.

funk100 · 2014-11-23T16:51:09+00:00

I am totally in favor of increasing the moderation of this subbreddit. Its subscriber base has grown significantly, and the maturity of the overall subreddit has taken a hit.

Most of the high quality larger (100k+) subbreddits use some form of moderation against clickbait-style posts, and mensrights is no exception. It comes down to how we as a community want to evolve: be popular with more clickbait style posts (as /u/DougDante has illustrated the popularity of such posts), like /r/gaming, or less popular, highly moderated, and high quality like /r/Games.

deathdragon5858 · 2014-11-24T00:54:32+00:00

Hard choice to make really. I can see the arguments for both as valid. I guess the real question would be what do we want? Do we want way more attention? If so that would involve clickbait in this idiotic world unfortunately. Also, would have to be more twit style, as many people can't be bothered to read more than a few sentences at a time, let alone a full blown article......

Hamakua · 2014-11-24T16:25:13+00:00

It would be a pretty good idea. An article that calls attention to itself wouldn't need clickbait, so quality of posts would be increased.

JohnKimble111 · 2014-11-24T18:07:18+00:00

The best improvement that could be made to this subreddit is for some guidance to be issued for how to submit posts about hateful content.

We shouldn't be giving all our traffic to organisations who make money out of misandrist click bait and instead the content should be archived so we can still read it without giving them traffic or improving their Google rank.

If the content allows comments then that's not so bad as we can at least potentially challenge the misandry, but I see zero value in linking to hate content which has no commenting allowed.

sherpederpisherp · 2014-11-25T10:52:58+00:00

Yes. We should promote acccuracy and being factual. Circlejerking may feel good, but it doesn't get things done.

intensely_human · 2014-11-26T17:19:01+00:00

I don't really like clickbait as a phenomenon, but I would like to point out that it is very hard to define. One man's clickbait might be another man's informative title.

So my vote would be to leave this type of decision to the filtering process of upvoting/downvoting. Create a culture in which people will tend to downvote clickbait, or highly reward someone who re-posts clickbait without its clickbait title, and let the voting system take care of it.

It would be a little nice to not have clickbait, but it would be horrifying to think that moderators are using such a squishy, ill-defined concept as a filter to delete posts without our even being aware of them in the first place.

StarOfAthenry · 2014-11-27T18:36:12+00:00

Yes, please. This subreddits feels, like most of reddit, as if it is trending to less valuable content.

Deansdale · 2014-11-24T08:31:28+00:00

Nope.

freemale101 · 2014-11-24T12:48:27+00:00

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