"long time members"? Isn't the flagging threshold still something like 30 Karma points?
Also, please stop breaking site rules with your comments, it won't lead to your "requests" being seen any more favorable...
Also, please stop breaking site rules with your comments, it won't lead to your "requests" being seen any more favorable...
Note well: Your story is worth talking about. It just doesn't belong in the discussion of this article.
As to why the other article disappeared... HN has a "flame war" detector. Any article that has more comments than upvotes has probably become a flame war. They usually or always kill those. You can vouch for them, though, as a way of saying that this shouldn't have been killed. (You need to have "show dead" turned on in your profile to still be able to see it. Also, you may have to have some level of karma to be able to vouch for something.)
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Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
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Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys intellectual curiosity, which is what the site exists for.