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I feel likes that’s not exactly fair and quite a bit of editorial censorship considering it was the original article title. Almost to the point I would ask if a

I feel likes that’s not exactly fair and quite a bit of editorial censorship considering it was the original article title. Almost to the point I would ask if any of the HN admins have stock positions in Trader Joe’s… Trader Joe’s is subjecting their customers to this and should be held responsible if if it was through their landlord. They still are an accomplice to this data harvesting by the fact they have a business relationship with the company doing this. Did you guys remove Facebook from the Cambridge Analytics scandal post? After “they” weren’t the ones doing right?

dang 5y ago
We're just trying to respond to user complaints about titles the same way we always do! No stock positions were involved. As for scandals of the past - I can't even remember last week. When users disagree about which title is better, we have to make a call. My call in this case is that (a) it's really not that big a deal and (b) it's best to go by HN's first principle, which is that we try to optimize for curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). It's much better to err on the side of curiosity than indignation.