Crazy Trick: Is it a clickbait headline or spam mail?

September 23, 2014 8:33 AM

Crazy Trick: Is it a clickbait headline or spam mail?
A simple quiz: Guess whether the text is from a subject in my spam folder or a news headline. Or: 21 scandalous true uncensored answers no one wants you to know, but everyone — including your future life partner — is talking about.

I learned that browsing known clickbait offenders for headlines was less pleasant than browsing my spam mail.

Role: designer

posted by c95008 (5 comments total)

This is fun and looks really neat though I hate how good I am at it.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:34 PM on September 24, 2014

Thanks for checking it out. Take pride in your skills! It's not uncommon for people to get half of them wrong.
posted by c95008 at 3:50 PM on September 24, 2014

This is hilarious.
posted by Night_owl at 5:39 AM on September 27, 2014

I got 2 out of the first 10 I tried. Would've done better flipping a coin! Nicely done.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 9:05 AM on September 27, 2014

Would've done better flipping a coin! Nicely done.

Don't worry - While testing, I'd get them wrong and I wrote the damn thing :)

If I was feeling especially evil, I'd swap out the ones that most people answered correctly, making the quiz get more difficult as people participated.

But that's extra work, and I'm more lazy than evil.
posted by c95008 at 10:12 AM on September 27, 2014