• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        "Thank God for ‘Harry Potter.’ I tell you, the two — ‘Batman’ and ‘Harry Potter’ — really, they saved me,

        That’s his exact quote. How long do you want the title, which is quoting him, to be?

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          “Gary Oldman thanks Batman, Harry Potter for ‘saving’ his family life”.

          Accurate, informative, and shorter than the given title.

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                11 months ago

                I think /u/WarmSoda may be as pleasant in real life as their username.

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                It’s pretty funny you don’t understand what a rhetorical question is.

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          11 months ago

          I’d prefer titles that more accurately described the content - they don’t necessarily have to quote the content.

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          1 year ago

          While you may be technically correct, a quote taken out of context can be misleading, as is the case here.

          They chose the quote to be the title for that purpose. That’s clickbait.

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          The title does not need to be a quote to give you information about the article. They use the quote out of context specifically to twist it slightly and get more clicks.