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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] sab -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's clickbait, but personally I'm not that interested in a retelling of how he started gutting twitter shortly after he bought it last year. Maybe it's not this article per se, just the straw of musk spam that broke the camels back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And you brought me into this why? You decided you needed to make that little swipe at me why, exactly?

[–] pivot_root 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these . . . I just don't want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. . . .

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's clickbait . . .

Your words, my emphasis.

[–] sab -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

[–] pivot_root 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it's a subset of clickbait.

Wikipedia:

Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers' anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory "headlines", memes, tropes, or comments.

[–] sab 2 points 1 year ago

My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don't deliver. Today I learned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Don't get me wrong"

Then say different words that mean different things...