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I hate articles that go on and on about some story before finally explaining what's in the title.


You're complaining about a Writer writing?


I'm complaining about clickbait.


If the article fits the title and isn't just to draw clicks it's not clickbait.

To be overly verbose is neither.


A light introduction that then segues into background material on a complicated legal topic is not clickbait.


> The first three versions of the Creative Commons license contained a small, significant oversight

This sentence is 1087 words in. That's a long "light introduction".


You're lumping in the long background section with the introduction.


The actual content I would expect is the following 3 points.

1. What the old clause of the license was 2. What kind of unintended side effect it had 3. What the new clause addressing this is

Summing up those 3 points results in a clear paragraph of maybe 5 to 10 lines. Meanwhile I challenge anyone who hasn't read it to extract that content from the article in less than 15 minutes.


The article delivers what it promises. While it may not be concise, that doesn't make it clickbait.


The article was packed with interesting legal details. If you don't like it you can just downvote and move on.


Or, hear me out, people seeing this constructive feedback here could take it to heart and do better next time.


Cory Doctorow is an established and prolific author of over 20 years. Pretty sure he's not changing his writing style for people with short attention spans who mislabel things as clickbait.


I feel that people who go on and on about 'clickbait' simply don't like reading... Feed the article to GPT if all you want is a bulleted list of points. Or just skim!




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