Your tone implies that dang (or whomever) edits titles willy-nilly to serve some agenda[0].  That&#x27;s unfair, unless you can present some kind of adverse <i>motive</i> behind such a deed, a motive I fail to see.<p>The other thing to consider before preserving unnecessarily clickbait-y titles is that leaving them intact could motivate enough readers to <i>flag down the article entirely</i> out of distaste for the title, resulting in more severe de facto &quot;censorship&quot; than you seem concerned about here.<p>.<p>[0] excluding, for the moment, arguments about articles from and regarding YC insiders like PG.