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Why Did HN flag my submission on Democracy and change it's name?
I added the EIU 2016 Democracy Index with the title: US downgraded from 'full' to 'flawed democracy' and the title was changed to '2016 Democracy Index' before being flagged. See screenshots below: 1) Original post http://imgur.com/O22kb1P 2)Title Change: http://imgur.com/2IvB4Nv 3) Flagged: http://imgur.com/71daypA
- 2close4comfort 10y agoBecause much like the US, HN is not a democracy...
- Neliquat 10y agoOn the contrary, this is democracy at work in one of its clearest forms.
- alistproducer2 10y agoit's because general political topics aren't considered a good fit by a lot of people and lots will reflexively flag them. As an example of how despised political discussion are, a chrome extension I made to filter stories (mostly political) made it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611
- dylz 10y ago1) political 2) editorializing the title
- AlphaWeaver 10y agoHN Guidelines [1] has a policy to post the full title of a site without modification. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 10y agoThat's the correct link but you've described the guideline inaccurately. What it says is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". Note the "unless".
- DanielleMolloy 10y agoI guess it was editorializing the title. (Also, the provided link was not very informative since for the original white paper you would need to register.)
- dang 10y agoThis is all routine. Please read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You've broken them in several ways, first by editorializing a title and second by posting this question here instead of emailing us. As for the flags, that's the work of HN users, as I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492445.
- DanielleMolloy 10y agoI tried submitting a comprehensive article that did not have access restrictions and a title that did not need editorializing ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491827 ) and it was marked "dupe", referring to your flagged topic. Mh.