The HN moderators will respond to you if you email them, it might be worth emailing them and asking them what happened. They can take a while. Their email addr

The HN moderators will respond to you if you email them, it might be worth emailing them and asking them what happened. They can take a while. Their email address is in the contact link at the bottom of the site. Unfortunately HN does have a misogynistic contingent, however some readers also believe general news is against guidelines (it's not). In this case it's clearly been flagged against the norm as you can see that most other guardian articles don't get flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theguardian.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theguardian.com I think HN also has an anti-flame filter, it might have been caught up in that too.