For example:
There is a blind spot in AI research | Autonomous systems are already ubiquitous, but there are no agreed methods to assess their effects
If it's interesting, I'll still click.
While I never post a comment on an article before reading it, I almost always read the comments before reading the article to avoid click baits. An brief one-line summary that serves the same role as an abstract would eliminate the need to read the comments first.
It might even help eliminate clickbaity titles in technical articles altogether.
buzzfeed/upworthy had such an impact on the world of journalism, that after an eon of only ever using the original headline, techmeme was forced to start rewriting headlines
here was their post outlining their decision http://news.techmeme.com/130906/headlines
It actually does discourage that, I remember seeing a post from dang saying so.