I am so disappointed that I clicked on that link. Dammit.

By the way, showerthoughts is an excellent subreddit.

1370 Reddit comments:

http://reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/31fvzl/finally_figured_out_what_makes_clickbait_titles/

"See the post that people fall for TWICE!".  :)

Dammit, I fell for it again!

http://pandawhale.com/post/921/psychological-facts-that-make-people-click

By the way, I found that link through this EditingAndLayout Willy Wonka thread.

Let me save everybody the trouble. (And yes, I could keep adding more o's forever, but I got bored.)

• http://www.noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.noooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - A mostly-empty page evidently owned by "Ger".
• http://www.noooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - A "related links" ad page.
• http://www.noooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An impressively long series of redirects, ultimately to an advertisement with extremely loud autoplay audio.
• http://www.noooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - An invalid URL.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooooo.com/ - A "related links" ad page.
• http://www.noooooooooooooooooo.com/ - A "related links" ad page.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooooo.com/ - A "buy this domain" page.
• http://www.noooooooooooooooo.com/ - A Christian fundie's silly rant.
• http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ - A button for when things get tough.
• http://www.noooooooooooooo.com/ - Same Christian fundie's silly rant.
• http://www.nooooooooooooo.com/ - Same Christian fundie's silly rant again!
• http://www.noooooooooooo.com/ - A "buy this domain" page.
• http://www.nooooooooooo.com/ - An entirely different "buy this domain" page.
• http://www.noooooooooo.com/ - A "related links" ad page.
• http://www.nooooooooo.com/ - Another entirely different "buy this domain" page.
• http://www.noooooooo.com/ - An aborted blog that is much less interesting than it thinks it is.
• http://www.nooo*ooo.com/ - I got a malware warning so I censored the URL here by replacing an o with a *.
• http://www.noooooo.com/ - Very sparse page for an in-production gangster film called "South32".
• http://www.nooooo.com/ - The same very sparse page for an in-production gangster film called "South32".
• http://www.noooo.com/ - The same very sparse page for an in-production gangster film called "South32" (wow).
• http://www.nooo.com/ - Yet another entirely different "buy this domain" page.
• http://www.noo.com/ - A mildly amusing animation with a link to itself.
• http://www.no.com/ - A Norwegian Google custom search page.
• http://www.n.com/ - An invalid URL. Guess you need 2 characters,
• http://www.com/ - Another "related links" ad page.

And on the other subject (God, have I really come to this?):

• /r/nooooooooooooooooooooo - An invalid page. Character limit, I guess.
• /r/noooooooooooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooooooooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/noooooooooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooooooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/noooooooooooooooo - A banned sub.
• /r/nooooooooooooooo - A sub with 1 subscriber and no posts.
• /r/noooooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/noooooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooooooooo - A sub that never took off.
• /r/noooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/noooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/noooooo - Doesn't exist.
• /r/nooooo - A sub that even more drastically never took off.
• /r/noooo - A private sub.
• /r/nooo - Another sub that drastically never took off.
• /r/noo - A private sub.
• /r/no - An active sub with 259 subscribers, activity at least weekly, and a lot of posts.
• /r/n - An invalid page.
• /r - A list of subs.
• / - The front page of the internet!

Psychological facts that make people click:

http://pandawhale.com/post/921/psychological-facts-that-make-people-click