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Someone with Photoshop skills needed to change joined images to verticle

The top-right "collage image" is too wide. However-- if it is "resized smaller" the text-within-the-images becomes unreadable. The solution is to stack (render verticle instead of horizontal) the sub-images. Then they won't 1) crowd the page and 2) require down-sizing (that makes the text-within-images unreadable).

Thanks in advance, Chesapeake77 ^{>>> ♥ Truth} 01:24, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

@Chesapeake77: I made the image a bit smaller. The 'upright' parameter, which is normally used for scaling, wasn't working in conjunction with the 'frame' type, so I changed it to a thumbnail. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:37, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

I think you found the right balance. I now agree that Photoshopping is not needed and the (now resized) image now works horizontally. I tweaked it just a little, (made it slightly larger still), but otherwize IMHO, I think this is resolved.

Chesapeake77 ^{>>> ♥ Truth} 16:45, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Could use an article about recognition

When I found this article, I expected to see information about recognition or detection of clickbait, with typical example formats listed such as:

• X things you should know about Y
• The X best Y for Z
• Secret(s) that X doesn't want you to know
• You won't believe...
• Use this trick [to solve X]
• Expert(s) finally reveal....

Searching for "clickbait detection" on Google Scholar shows plenty of scholarly sources on the subject. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:32, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Twitter citation

The citation for Twitter filtering clickbait is a whole conference proceedings with little to do with social media. The two papers that looked relevant did not have the word "clickbait" in them. I also could not find other evidence that Twitter filters clickbait (nor that it did previously).

Facebook, on the other hand, has a well-known anti-clickbait mechanism: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/503640323442584 https://siliconangle.com/2017/05/17/facebook-wants-block-clickbait-one-weird-trick/

I would suggest changing the Twitter info to Facebook, particularly if no relevant citations for Twitter can be found. Google even suggested this page as an answer to the question "Does Twitter filter clickbait?", while that appears to be misleading. 2603:7080:7200:4E45:F9DC:77F2:8725:296C (talk) 20:46, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Providing an example

At the end of paragraph two, the article mentions that not all instances where clicking sends the user to an unexpected destination is clickbait, I'd suggest providing an example, say, the thing that sends people to that Rick Astley video, the action that I apparently can't name or else this post gets blocked. 2601:601:1100:46D0:71D0:72BC:C2A9:E676 (talk) 07:58, 27 June 2023 (UTC)