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> Like my election results submissions just a few minutes ago. Yes, it's not final, but projections are very accurate, and every major news outlet is reporting

> Like my election results submissions just a few minutes ago. Yes, it's not final, but projections are very accurate, and every major news outlet is reporting those. The HN Guidelines say: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." Election results are (1) politics and (2) covered on TV news. But I'm puzzled about why your medical story got flagged. Could you post the link in a comment so we can see what it was?

gus_massa 7y ago
I guess one of the articles is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 I think that articles for and against homeopathy are autokilled. Perhaps the OP can write to the mods. The other article is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20016826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20016826 I'd blame also USA-centrism. A similar article about an election in USA would probably survive, and next year we will have an invasion of political articles. Probably it is a good idea to avoid posting all the election in all countries, but perhaps we can use a rule that says that we care about the countries that have nukes. (If it works in the UN, it can work in HN :).) (Hi from Argentina!)
- greenyoda 7y ago
  > I guess one of the articles is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 I think that articles for and against homeopathy are autokilled. Perhaps the OP can write to the mods. This article is marked "[dead]", not "[flagged][dead]", so it wasn't killed by user flags. Either the domain is banned, or the article was killed by a moderator. Since that article looks OK (it's a summary of scientific research), I've "vouched" it, and it's now alive again.

gus_massa 7y ago

I guess one of the articles is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 I think that articles for and against homeopathy are autokilled. Perhaps the OP can write to the mods. The other article is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20016826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20016826 I'd blame also USA-centrism. A similar article about an election in USA would probably survive, and next year we will have an invasion of political articles. Probably it is a good idea to avoid posting all the election in all countries, but perhaps we can use a rule that says that we care about the countries that have nukes. (If it works in the UN, it can work in HN :).) (Hi from Argentina!)

greenyoda 7y ago
> I guess one of the articles is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 I think that articles for and against homeopathy are autokilled. Perhaps the OP can write to the mods. This article is marked "[dead]", not "[flagged][dead]", so it wasn't killed by user flags. Either the domain is banned, or the article was killed by a moderator. Since that article looks OK (it's a summary of scientific research), I've "vouched" it, and it's now alive again.