cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20788922

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agnesmontague posts:
devastating news for the discourse poster: “media literacy” in the modern age includes the ability to identify which posts are bait

agnesmontague replies:
before you go on lamenting the death of media literacy on the post of some guy who may, perhaps, have a financial incentive to get as many eyes on their slop as humanly possible, take a second to assess whether this “literacy” you speak of could apply to you in this very moment, because otherwise, brother, i bear some bad news

agnesmontague replies:
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#anybody got pointers for those who don’t know the signs of bait? (end quote)
i’m glad someone asked, though unfortunately i don’t think there is any set of rules or pointers to abide by; my principle is that if a take is “too hot” (worded in an inflammatory way, way overbroad or generalized, reads offensively) on a platform that rewards engagement (twitter, tiktok, or youtube, mostly, though not confined to those), it’s likely bait for the sake of baiting, although to be honest i have never once found it a loss to simply ignore/block any take online that pisses me off regardless of whether i think it is sincere or in good faith. so my rule of thumb is to just not engage, generally

  • ethaver@kbin.earthM
    3·
    6 hours ago

    @nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone is this week’s winner of the “Excellence in Post Transcription” award, and will have their post pinned until next Monday (or longer if my apartment building loses power again).

    trophy

  • ethaver@kbin.earthM
    1·
    6 hours ago

    The amount of people I’ve met that can’t understand that people mispronouncing things in youtube videos (or mispelling things in written media) is literally just to up the comment numbers because the numbers don’t care if 50 of the comments are just “it’s pronounced ____!” …is staggering considering how many years now it’s been THE strat. Like even creators I consider otherwise respectable are doing it. I mean I guess they might not be. I had an old-as-florence nursing instructor who pronounced “centimeters” as “SONtimeters” and I looked it up and it’s a legit pronunciation but I’m still not convinced she wasn’t doing it just to try to sound fancy.

  • big_slap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    #anybody got pointers for those who don’t know the signs of bait?

    a good one I go by is: if it illicits a strong emotion within seconds of reading whatever you are reading, any emotion, its probably bait.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    161·
    2 days ago

    “Don’t feed the troll” is literally one of the most basic internet concepts and yet 99% of people fall for it. Everyone is high fiving about how good Mastodon is, but when I visited their explore tab I was greeted with people taking screenshots of every Elon Musk post and crying over it. They cannot stop falling for bait.

    • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      And every person in a comment section saying “don’t feed the troll” are probably far worse at spotting trolls than they would like to think.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Also people with 1m followers who quote retweet obvious bait from a 500 follower account