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
This is all routine. Please read the site guidelines: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>. 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: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492445" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492445</a>.
HN Guidelines [1] has a policy to post the full title of a site without modification.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>
it's because general political topics aren't considered a good fit by a lot of people and lots will reflexively flag them.<p>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:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611</a>
I tried submitting a comprehensive article that did not have access restrictions and a title that did not need editorializing ( <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491827" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491827</a> ) and it was marked "dupe", referring to your flagged topic. Mh.
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.)