Well, here’s one debate resolved:
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I dunno; should we make a poll to see?
- I Dig the All the New Clickbait Listicles
- I Do Not Like That Re-hashed Spam
- I Just Made More Popcorn
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We need clickbait summaries of tabloid stories selling BoingBoing shop items
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Narrator: they didn’t
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In BoingBoing Shop, bait clicks you!
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Cleaved apart, or cleaved together? 
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I’m changing my vote in Melz’s poll to the popcorn option if there’s cleavage…
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It is possible that some sarcasm went over my head then.
Me? I don’t hate it and will probably read through them for the time being since they’re so short (unlike the drawn out Peter Sheridan “dubious tabloids” rundowns). But i hope at some point Toohey will find better things to do with their time.
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I don’t like it because it’s lazy writing, and because it drags BB down toward whatever level a place like Buzzfeed occupies.
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This poll is missing an option:
You’ll never believe how I feel about clickbait summaries. Option 4 will blow your mind!
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LIke finish reading his their latest ann rand book??
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At this point, it’s about 50% listicles and 50% links to amazon… Not sure why people would want BB to go in that direction…
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I never wish to judge a book by it’s cover, but when that pseudonym first popped up here I gave it some serious side eye.
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Most of those examples sound like AI to me. AI approving of AI doesn’t impress me!
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I couldn’t even get a third of the way thru atlas, and never read anything else of hers. Her so-called mind was just so selfish and hateful…I wanted no more contact with it ever again.
I had no idea the BB author’s pseudonym was the name of one of her characters, and it’s a major turn-off.
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Oh, so very same!
They sounded a bit off to me, too, and I don’t think I recognized most of those avis. Also, who in the 21st century uses the word rubric in common parlance?
wiki say: In the realm of US education, a rubric is a “scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students’ constructed responses” according to James Popham.
Mirriam-Webster say: an authoritative rule - especially : a rule for conduct of a liturgical service
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HIPAA…how does it work?
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I’m not sure that one poster flailing about like a display at a used car dealership counts as a BB argument…
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Fuckin’ A.
There’s just so much ‘Dunning-Kruger’ going on with that person’s current line of commentary, it’s damn near painful to witness…
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Especially painful for those of us who’ve had to go through endless repetitive HIPAA training for work for years and years.
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