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Why Did HN flag my submission on Democracy and change it's name?

3 points by Jyefet ↗ HN
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

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2close4comfort
Because much like the US, HN is not a democracy...
Neliquat
On the contrary, this is democracy at work in one of its clearest forms.
alistproducer2
it'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

dylz
1) political

2) editorializing the title

AlphaWeaver
HN Guidelines [1] has a policy to post the full title of a site without modification.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang
That'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
I 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.)