Moderators de-ranked my post on Ayahuasca by changing the title

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A post I submitted about how Ayahuasca changed my perspective on God was de-ranked after moderators did a title change.

Not sure why, but it seems like this is abuse by moderators because I did not seem to violate any community guidelines with the post, and it was deleted just as it was gaining good discussion.

Here's the submission in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026108

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It could be down to the flame-war detector being triggered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159031

The conversation was very civil though. I spoke to the moderators and they say that the flame-war detector was triggered, but when I asked him to read the comments he agreed that there wasn't a flame-war.

He said that since it was already taken down they would need "a good reason" to put it back up. And that the article's topic was "generic and sensationalist" so they don't feel like they should keep it up.

In my opinion, I think one of the moderators is more athiest and maybe it conflicted with their values and rubbed them the wrong way, so they decided to bury it when the "flame-war" detector went off, even though there was no flame war.

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