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Topic: Do you guys really need to resort to click bait articles?

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Tasuki

I apologize if this seems rude but this is just an observation of mine that I have seemed to notice of late and I am pretty sure I am not the only one.

Now this is not a jab at any writer, edition or any other staff member but the news articles in the past few weeks have really become bad.

One of the reasons I enjoyed this site and came here for the past few years is due to the articles. Stuff like the history of Mario or consoles, the great reviews, interviews with developers etc. but as of late your articles seem to be click bait just articles to get people to comment to get hits. I mean honestly did we need an article on a possible terrorist attack on a Pokémon tournament, granted I understand it was a Nintendo gaming tournament but come on. Especially when you know that the comment section would blow up with gun rights arguments and racial arguments. Do we need an article once a week about hacking a Nintendo device or cloning products which will just lead to people discussing piratecy?

I understand that you guys want this site to get bigger and bigger but at what price? Do you honestly think you guys are the only site that will have an article on a terrorist attack at a Pokémon tournament? Most people that want to know about that will go elsewhere like CNN.com or other news feeds. I don't know about others but going to find out about a terrorist attack I don't think let me see what Nintendolife has on it. No, I want to come here for gaming news and articles that I can't find elsewhere, I want to be able to discuss an articles reticle without having my discussions ignored cause people are arguing about America's gun rights or whether or not it's ok to download roms from the internet.

Again I am sorry if this seems rude, blunt but this is just how I have been feeling about this site as of late.

Overall you guys are still great for reviews and the Mod team is still the best around but sadly as I said it's the articles.

Thanks for listening at least while I got this off my chest.

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Haruki_NLI

Reminds me, for a time, of the endless Sonic sucks articles, that started with, routinely, it was better once. And hey its fine, but by definition in physics and life in general, negatives need positives. Otherwise...well how do you know its negative? How can you compare it to something t say its bad? You cant. Try acknowledging that its not all bad lately, or that the amiibo situation isn't awful and getting better, things like that take time.

Its just...why do it? What does it achieve? Gets the comments flowing. Benefits no one beyond ad-revenue. And if the site isn't generating enough of that to sustain it, then do something better.

I don't come here to be attacked in the comments, unless I've stated a full out opinion. If I'm observing and saying how it affects me, then it works not as an opinion but a discussion and observation. It used to be relatively sane here, but then the comments ended up giving light to my, among a few of us, including @Tasuki here, having a running gag about getting drunk the more comments arrive! And that's to cope with the light to heavy amounts of WTF we are reading as we descend down the page!

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LaserdiscGal

Ill admit the amount of articles that are made just to raise argument is insane. Those pages are a pain to moderate, and with the exception of Thomas, nobody even gives us a heads up that they're coming.

That being said, some of the users here on the forums are lovely people that make it all worth visiting everyday

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Klimbatize

I haven't recorded any stats or anything, but it seems like we still get all those articles you're talking about (history, developer interviews, reviews) but also what you call "click bait". I think people are using the term "click bait" far too loosely. Click bait is like those Senran Kagura Burst articles Damo posted every other day last year. ;^*

If they were subbing out the articles you liked for ones you didn't, I could understand the complaint more. But the site seems to produce more articles in general, so of course not all of them will be so niche. I just ignore the articles and comment sections I don't like (it's not like they flood the front page with them), and go to threads about games I enjoy.

Now, if you're complaining about the comments section, that's a legitimate gripe, though I do think the mods do a really good job. Whenever some clown is being an overall d-bag to everyone they usually don't last very long.

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Haruki_NLI

@Darth_Vader: Oh absolutely. The numbers are skyrocketing. And they just drop, often with the warning of WW2.

I love the some of the folks here. My drinking buddies, Tasuki, many semi-regulars I engage in chats with, those on my Facebook, you know? But as these articles increase, the other kind of person increases. And it increases, and increases, and increases. How much longer?

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Jazzer94

See this is when I think to myself why don't you guys (not you specifically @Tasuki ) not click on these articles if you feel they are click bait, but most do anyway then complain if more articles of a similar nature start appearing. I just ignore (apart from moderating the worst ones) articles that I know will just resulting in users bashing heads arguing, but I see time and again users who complain happily going into said articles arguing.

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Xilef

I think it's great that NL reports and diskusses these things as they are interesting and often serious things. I'm sorry, but your comment make it sound like you wnat NL to be some sort of naive happy place rather than a serious website.

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Nicolai

The repertoire of horrendous click-bait articles on the web, and you want to complain about the article about something serious that actually happened? What about the plethora of articles turning news into irrelevant issues, like "Nintendo 2DS getting a price drop, where’s the Wii U price drop?," wild speculations like "Nintendo planning to quietly kill the Wii U," or misinterpretations, like "Iwata doesn't care what other companies are doing, according to recent interview." How about naming an article "The Wii U will have an acheivements system," based on an article when the developers said they were "considering ways to unify social interactions on their console?

Honestly, I don't mind in the slightest when Nintendolife decides to actually report on news, regardless of who is interested, or what the comment section will be like.

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DefHalan

There are a few cases of click bait articles that I have seen, but I wouldn't count an attempted attack on the Pokemon World Championships to be a click bait article. That is news I want to hear about. I don't go to many other sites, so I almost missed that news all together. Click Bait is often in the eye of the beholder, as things they don't care about might be considered Click Bait.

In my opinion, articles such as "Top 5 eShop Games" are Click Bait. Those articles are just the writers expressing their opinions while people on the forums are expressing their opinions on which games are the best almost daily. Those articles add nothing new to the conversations and just give people the idea that since it is a "published" article it holds more weight than someone else's opinion.

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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Nicolai

DefHalan wrote:

In my opinion, articles such as "Top 5 eShop Games" are Click Bait. Those articles are just the writers expressing their opinions while people on the forums are expressing their opinions on which games are the best almost daily. Those articles add nothing new to the conversations and just give people the idea that since it is a "published" article it holds more weight than someone else's opinion.

I disagree, as there are a lot of people I know who like Top Ten lists, and such. I'm not sure why.

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DefHalan

@Nicolai: That is why it is in the eye of the beholder. Some people won't see the article as Click Bait, while others will.

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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Tasuki

I apologize if I used the term click bait wrong. I always viewed click bait as articles created to get people to click on your site, though I might be wrong, still my thoughts still stand.

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Nicolai

@DefHalan: Some things are undeniably click-bait, though. The techniques I listed in my first post, such as misinterpreting something on purpose to make it more interesting, or choosing the more provocative thumbnail for a subject that isn't provocative; that is undeniably click bait, because the audience's request was not taken into account. They're the type of things that are done solely for clicks, and they leave the audience misinformed or burned.

@Tasuki, all articles are there for you to click on them, but it's only bait if it's unethical or misleading.

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Jazzer94

Tasuki wrote:

I apologize if I used the term click bait wrong. I always viewed click bait as articles created to get people to click on your site, though I might be wrong, still my thoughts still stand.

That is the goal of every single article on every single site though.

Clickbait to me is a poorly constructed sometimes not even accurate article that has a suggestive headline to reel people in.

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LaserdiscGal

Well I got the word to lock this up, Tasuki feel free to use the contact form.

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