diff --git a/app/views/help/show.html.haml b/app/views/help/show.html.haml
index be257b51b9e..f6ebd76af9d 100644
--- a/app/views/help/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/help/show.html.haml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 - page_title @path.split("/").reverse.map(&:humanize)
 .documentation.wiki
-  = markdown @markdown.gsub('$your_email', current_user.try(:email) || "email@example.com")
+  = markdown @markdown
diff --git a/spec/features/help_pages_spec.rb b/spec/features/help_pages_spec.rb
index 4319d6db0d2..40a1fced8d8 100644
--- a/spec/features/help_pages_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/help_pages_spec.rb
@@ -1,16 +1,6 @@
 require 'spec_helper'
 
 describe 'Help Pages', feature: true do
-  describe 'Show SSH page' do
-    before do
-      login_as :user
-    end
-    it 'replaces the variable $your_email with the email of the user' do
-      visit help_page_path('ssh/README')
-      expect(page).to have_content("ssh-keygen -t rsa -C \"#{@user.email}\"")
-    end
-  end
-
   describe 'Get the main help page' do
     shared_examples_for 'help page' do |prefix: ''|
       it 'prefixes links correctly' do