Censoring, YCombinator?
As an aside, I can understand you might be frustrated, but please don’t immediately assume bad faith or malicious intent. Even stories which are flagged dead can be resurrected by members who vouch for it or mods if they think it’s appropriate. You’ve provided far too little information here for someone else besides a mod to easily figure out what might be going on. You can also contact the mods directly via the Contact link in the footer, which is often the most expedient method of getting an authoritative response.
The original title is:
Reddit’s The_Donald Was One Of The Biggest Havens For Russian Propaganda During 2016 Election, Analysis Finds
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I checked for submissions from the 'Calvin02 account, which shows no dead submissions for the inquistr story. Like I said, you gave much too little information about what had failed for me to try much else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Calvin02
The image you posted shows a message that the submitted title is 13 characters too long, which is the reason it's not letting you submit. You'll likely be successful if you shorten the title.
“Reddit’s The_Donald Was One Of The Biggest Havens For Russian Propaganda“ (72 characters)
AFAIK, if you're logged in and have a title that's of acceptable length, you should be able to submit. Any flagging or whatnot happens after submission: there's no filtering that happens before the submit button is clicked.
If you think something else is going on, or there's something that's affecting your account, I again suggest you contact the mods directly. If that is the case, they're the only ones who are going to be able to confirm and address it.
<guess> You probably submitted the story once and see that it was killed (automatically). Then you probably deleted it and tried to resubmit it (with a shorter and longer title) (from your account and from other account).
Probably some of the automatic spam filters can detect resubmission of deleted stories, perhaps for a short time. This is probably to prevent spammers form resubmitting stories that are flagged/killed. You are not a spammer, but automatic filters sometimes make mistakes.</guess>
In any case, to get an official reply, send an email to the mods.
There is such an abundance of Political fodder that it makes political stories less relevant or interesting.
There's a place for it, but it's not here. If people wanted that, there would be no need for HN's.
It's not really censoring as much as that's the boring content that's on every other major news syndicate.
Now it's just a dead horse that's being beat.
Let me give you the benefit of the doubt - Is this the first you have heard of it?
In my opinion, Reddit could have had a greater influence than either Facebook or Twitter. On Facebook, the Russians ran ads and they used bots on Twitter but in both of those cases the total reach was probably less than Reddit’s reach.
Also, while we are scrutinizing Facebook and Twitter (rightly), it is time that Reddit (the fourth most popular site) should also have to explain what it is doing.
For an official reply, send an email to the mod in the morning hn@ycobinator.com , sometimes they unkill the story.