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

by Jyefet on 1/26/17, 2:53 PM with 9 comments

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

by dang on 1/26/17, 4:30 PM
This is all routine. Please read the site guidelines: 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.
by AlphaWeaver on 1/26/17, 2:57 PM
HN Guidelines [1] has a policy to post the full title of a site without modification.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by alistproducer2 on 1/26/17, 2:56 PM
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
by DanielleMolloy on 1/26/17, 4:00 PM
I 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 ) and it was marked "dupe", referring to your flagged topic. Mh.
by dylz on 1/26/17, 2:57 PM
1) political
2) editorializing the title
by DanielleMolloy on 1/26/17, 3:03 PM
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.)
by 2close4comfort on 1/26/17, 2:55 PM
Because much like the US, HN is not a democracy...