When you write a show, and you can't excite your audience with nothing but empty promises of a long-dead villain appearing over and over again in every situation you can put him into without saying he's alive or dead. You're trying to keep your audience, but you'll never gonna bring him back, while basically basing your whole show on the fact that he MIGHT be back. It's bad writing and it makes people sad.
"Did you see the new season of Sherlock? Is Jim really alive?"
"Nah, it was a total moriarty baiting the whole time... there's Sherlock's evil sister instead."
"what"
When using a social media platform in which hashtags sort posts, such as Instagram, a person adds hashtags that are unrelated. Often for the sake of reaching a wider audience.
This in consequence renders the hashtag sorting system useless.
“Stop Tag baiting, this post is about how to change a tire, why did I find it in #cooking?”
When a straight girl acts like she’s interested in another girl just so she can come out to her.
Lesbian girl: I came out to Amelia because I thought she was interested in me, then she ditched me
Friend: What gave you the indication that she was a lesbian?
Lesbian girl: She kept flirting with me.
Friend: She was lesbian baiting you
a woman who causes earthquakes by wearing revealing clothing and behaving in a promiscuous manner
Hey, check out Miss Quake Bait over there. Could that bathing suit leave any less to the imagination?
a man who uses his penis to catch things, air land or sea.
man i've been a bait dangler all weekend, and i caught three diseases and two fish.
When someone posts something online(usually a video or comment), for the sole purpose of getting hate comments/interactions. The same way clickbait is purposely outlandish and misleading so people click on it, hate-bait is usually ridiculous or hateful so people react to it.
Jasper: “Did she really just say that?”
Henry: “Nah, bro that’s just hate-bait, ignore it.”
Also known as Reductio ad Stalinum, Reductio ad Marxisum, Reductio ad Chomskynum, Reductio ad Bakunum/Reductio ad Bakuninum, Reductio ad Libertarianum, Reductio ad Leninum, or Red-tag, is a logical fallacy (part of ad hominem) when someone dismiss speaker's argument by accusing them as a leftist
A: You're fascist <=A is deliberately doing reductio ad Hitlerum by accusing B as a fascist
B: STFU you leftist liberal special snowflake <= B is deliberately doing red-bait fallacy by name-calling A as leftist liberal special snowflake