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Many postings are suddenly HEADLINE ONLY, with no text or elaboration until you click. New trend?
February 1, 2019 | Lee Martell

Posted on 02/10/2019 10:53:41 AM PST by lee martell

Have you noticed it too? In the last three or four weeks, I'm seeing more Free/Rep postings showing only the Headline, not much else. There are still a few, that include two or three sentences of text from the author, but not the majority as it was until now.

The plus side is that you can squeeze maybe 35% more articles per page than before. The negative, is to paraphrase what Nancy Pelosi said, "You now have to Click it in order to find out what's really in it."

In a textural sense, it almost looks like a different website at first glance. I know there is no actual difference in totality, of course. I can deal with it if need be, but I will miss being able to do some 'Window Shopping' before clicking an article on.


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To: jjotto; lee martell

I never click on “brevity” because I don’t want to disturb the soul of wit.


21 posted on 02/10/2019 1:34:12 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: lee martell

Where are your posting of articles?


22 posted on 02/10/2019 1:43:04 PM PST by NoLibZone (Trump's exposed the life long, professional ruling class that can't be removed without violence.)
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To: NoLibZone

I post once in a while.
I don’t post as often as I used to.
I’ve learned that it’s best to wait until there is a topic that almost anyone will have an individual opinion on.
A very familiar experience will produce the most expressive results.


23 posted on 02/10/2019 1:56:29 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

when people post a video it’d be nice if they posted a couple sentence summary of the content.

Of course I’m a hypocrite cause i made this same mistake myself a couple times


24 posted on 02/10/2019 3:15:29 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: ImpBill; lee martell
Not sure if this is it, but I have noticed quite a few “bloggers” posting like this to drive you to their html in order to improve their “hits”. Many of these turn out to be basically an opinion piece which really aren’t “News”.

True, or links to videos, or sites which FR limits to 300 words or something.

I myself try to put much (Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man) .

25 posted on 02/10/2019 5:25:18 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: lee martell

They might have noticed how many FReepers only read the headlines and are too lazy to read the actual story before they react....


26 posted on 02/11/2019 3:11:16 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: ImpBill
Many of these turn out to be basically an opinion piece which really aren’t “News”.

Either that, or material that the blogger stole from some other source.

27 posted on 02/11/2019 3:24:52 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: SamAdams76

You must be talking about bubblegummer, or something like that!


28 posted on 02/11/2019 3:26:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Fresh Wind

Something like that.


29 posted on 02/11/2019 4:44:06 AM PST by SamAdams76
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