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[Calorus]

I pay my subscription, frankly it doesn't matter a damn if I read any articles or not.

Please can you, at least for paying customers, not use these crappy titles?

Just use what ever you'd use in the Magazine.

[potmotr]

Why Calorus isn't convinced by clickbait titles

 

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[Sterzo]

The secret behind Calorus's post on clickbait

Why Calorus must read clickbait titles

How Calorus denounced our titles

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[john winfield]

I couldn't resist looking at this thread.

[Vitesse2]

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[PayasYouRace]

7 ways that headlines have changed in the past 50 years (and 7 ways they haven't).

 

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[potmotr]

The Autosport headline cynic who had to accept change in his beloved title

 

Calorus slams Autosport for destroying his read

 

Why Calorus is no longer ignoring clickbait headlines 

 

(All from today's Autosport front page incidentally!)

[YoungGun]

For a better internet experience, I would recommend reading,  "7 simple ways to recognize click bait titles".

[Sterzo]

OK Autosport, I know nobody’s listening but I’m going to say it anyway. My collection of Autosport mags starts at the first issue in 1950 and I’ve loved reading this mag for a lifetime. I have repeatedly defended Autosport in the forum threads. But now you are straining my patience.

 

Today’s Autosport Plus headlines from the website:

• Why F1’s pantomime Virtual GP is fun but unsustainable
• The big winners from contract season
• Why F1's showman is the big winner of its enforced hiatus
• How a veteran tech guru is constantly learning
• How delayed 2020 offers the chance for an experiment

100% moronic click-bait. Two ‘whys’, two ‘hows’ and notice the lack of names because ‘we’re not telling you, you’ll have to read it.’

 

I don’t need reminding I’m stupid. Bear in mind Autosport Plus is for subscribers. We are paying to have our intelligence insulted.

 

[PayasYouRace]

Why does this bother anyone?

How would you write an article title otherwise?

[SophieB]

I like that the word 'fannying' is in the banner headline of Autsoport at the moment.

[chdphd]

I see that the super long headlines with super long subheadings have been reigned in. You need a character limit on those inputs.

[john winfield]

Why does this bother anyone?

How would you write an article title otherwise?

 

Well, they tried it recently.

 

'Norris planning new helmet design every race'.

 

But it took all the fun out of it. We want the excitement of guessing which young F1 hero will be confusing us all during the next (2023?) season. We don't want bald statements of fact. We want suggestion, teasing, misleading innuendo. We want clickbait!

[proviz]

Why does this bother anyone?

How would you write an article title otherwise?

 

Well, after this I just have to come out saying how can it be described as anything other than moronic click-bait. Offensive, an insult to one's intelligence.

[PayasYouRace]

How proviz' intelligence is insulted by Autosport headlines.