• atheken@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Also, as far as I can tell, they’re talking about devs that are building on the Roblox platform, not devs that are building the platform.

    In other words, random devs of varying skill levels getting name-squatted.

    It’s not good, but including Roblox in the title is definitely misleading/clickbait.

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      1 year ago

      It is a library to work with Roblox, saying Roblox isn’t misleading. I can agree that “Roblox devs” is misleading though.

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        1 year ago

        It’s misleading because it’s irrelevant and makes it sound like a platform breach.

        Try replacing Roblox with “Foozsplatz” and the implication of severity is completely different, even though the nature of what is being reported is unchanged.

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          I’m confused, in this hypothetical is Foozsplatz a non sense word or is it meant to be a game like Roblox? If you mean the first, then yeah, obviously replacing a proper noun with gibberish changes the implication. If you mean the second then no, it would have the same implication.

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            It literally doesn’t matter. You can remove the word and the nature of the problem being discussed is still the same. What platform is being targeted has nothing to do with the example problem. Roblox is only mentioned to sensationalize it and get clicks.

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                1 year ago

                The thread you are in and my response made it clear that the headline is clickbait by including that irrelevant detail.

                If they didn’t include that word in the post title, it would have no traction at all.

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                  1 year ago

                  “Roblox library is target of typo squatting” is a perfectly accurate headline that uses the word Roblox and is not clickbait.