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by dang 3044 days 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

1 comments

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.

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.