It developed originally as a fairly cynical way to make blogs posts stand out, but now everyone seems to be doing it. I hate it.

In fact, I might write a post on it: Why Your Post Titles Are Annoying and What You Can Do About It

I think a better title might be: "Your Titles Suck."

7 Reasons Why Your Titles Suck

How I wrote a title that didn't suck, and saw my productivity increase 30%

With "Please, oh please use git pull --rebase" I didn't mean to preach but to convince some of the people I code with to maintain at least basics of a clean git history, thus the 'please' in title. I wrote it some time ago and only yesterday I was surprised at the sudden popularity of that post :)

Don't take it personally, it's more of a general observation that a problem with your post in particular