I was in the process of writing an email to the mods requesting that they change it to be more accurate when I found they'd already changed it. Apparently I'm not the only user to do so, since someone beat me to it. I have no associations with YC, HN, or Stripe.
Literally anyone can quickly get a HN story title changed if they let us know how an existing title is inaccurate. This is bog-standard moderation which we do all day every day, and it is certainly not limited to YC cos.
The intention is to have a front page with accurate and neutral titles. Call that censorship if you want to (as far as I can tell, that word is just a pejorative for editing that someone doesn't like) but it seems a bit weird to speak of "censoring" titles for being misleading.
As I said elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074261), if anyone can suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral) we'd be happy to change it again.
Seems like there should be a mention of a price increase. The current title gives no indication that pricing would change for anyone who isn't choosing to go out and purchase this Stripe Billing product.
This thread is newsworthy for a lot of folks because they are learning that a feature that they thought they were paying for through the standard fees is now only available if they pay extra for a bundle of other stuff (which they never signed up for).
So not mentioning the effective price increase in the title comes across like the someone is hiding the ball, especially because of the YC connection.
