Let me propose a new, simple solution for how the internet should work. It's become increasingly apparent how gay click-throughs for sites like Yahoo have become. Obviously it's not just Yahoo, but I'll use it as the posterboy because it's a repeat offender. Let's say a new story on the front page catches my eye - Did the Philies end up winning the world series? I click on it, assuming the answer will stare me in the face on the next page, but no, I have to watch a fucking video with an advertisement in front of it and the question isn't even answered in the fucking headline! So some Yahoo analyst faggot talks for a few minutes and I finally get the answer I'm looking for, "Yes".
Sites make you jump through so many hoops just to get to a simple answer, so I've to the conclusion that this is how things should look from now on:
Luis
this is how newspapers work, this is how magazines work, this is how the 11pm evening news work etc etc. They hook you in... I actually find the ones on TV especially annoying, they always try to spin it like your life DEPENDS on it.
Stay tuned for our story on baby food, this COULD SAVE YOUR CHILDS LIFE.
In the end the report didnt even deal with anything life threatening and is actually rather mundane.
Anyway my point is that the tactic has been used since the beginning of time. Using it online is more or less just an extra instance of it now.
ConAir
I guess I was going for more of a humorous post, I wish I would've developed it a little further. It always makes me think of those single-serving sites where it's just big black text on a white background, so I just applied that to real-world sites. Obviously, this technique has been around for ages, but it'd be hilarious if they reverted to this.