Posted: Oct 17, 2016 2:32 pm
If Cotard delusion is the illness in question, which I am unable to ascertain from the thread title or the OP, then this confirms for me that even a layout design argument cannot be used to justify the click-bait title. "Cotard delusion makes people think they're dead" has two fewer characters than "This rare illness makes people think they're dead."
As it stands, if nobody had followed the link, we would have a thread wherein nobody was able to tell what the thread was supposed to be about.
Wikipedia wrote:Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching thumbnail pictures to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks. Clickbait headlines typically aim to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make the reader curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content.