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Please use the original title.

• thecatspaw 9y ago
  The Original posters did use the title of the blogpost. @Admins, why did you change it? I feel like the original title "Your ISP is Probably Spying On You" better describes what this post is about. Not using the original router can be due to all kinds of reasons, not just privacy
• dang 9y ago
  The HN guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." This one was linkbait—it used the linkbait "you" twice. We took that out. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • jwilk 9y ago
    I could figure out that "you" doesn't refer to me personally, and so can the rest of HN. There's nothing "linkbait" about it. You can express your opinion about the original title in a comment. There's no need it impose this (twisted, IMO) view on everyone.
    • dang 9y ago
      As the people who read the most headlines here, probably by an order of magnitude, I'm afraid we have to pull rank on that. Gratuitous "you" in titles is one of the biggest linkbait tropes. Presumably we're all wired to direct our attention to someone saying "hey you!"; headline writers figured this out and have been milking it ever since.