The original title, "Apple claims 99% iPhone 14 satisfaction. Is that possible? (No). We investigate" (which this was submitted under originally) is less click-baity than the current version: "Is Apple making implausible iPhone satisfaction claims?"
I pinged dang to ask him to change the title to match the title of the actual article, because it was obvious from the rate of upvotes and the quality of comments that the title as submitted was inflamatory.
I can't measure clicks, but the pace of upvotes on this submission slowed dramatically after dang changed it: it had reached ~50 upvotes in about half an hour (~100 upvotes an hour), and now it's been here for another hour with only ~30 more upvotes (~15 upvotes an hour).
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The original title, "Apple claims 99% iPhone 14 satisfaction. Is that possible? (No). We investigate" (which this was submitted under originally) is less click-baity than the current version: "Is Apple making implausible iPhone satisfaction claims?"
I pinged dang to ask him to change the title to match the title of the actual article, because it was obvious from the rate of upvotes and the quality of comments that the title as submitted was inflamatory.
I can't measure clicks, but the pace of upvotes on this submission slowed dramatically after dang changed it: it had reached ~50 upvotes in about half an hour (~100 upvotes an hour), and now it's been here for another hour with only ~30 more upvotes (~15 upvotes an hour).
The advantage is that the answer to the title question is yes for once.
These both seem the same to me as far as click bait goes…