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Comment by creakingstairs | Hacker News Reader

Is there a way to find out why a submission got flagged? For my first submission, I’ve submitted a BBC article about Elon’s bid for Twitter (after checking new/front page for duplicate) and it got promptly flagged. I don’t think I’ve broke any rules listed in this, so I’m not sure what I did wrong there.

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I believe anyone with a high enough karma can flag submissions, so it might not be that rule-enforced. It won't get banned or hidden unless a moderator is involved, who probably follows a set of rules. I'm not sure at what point the [flagged] tag is added to the submission.

It was probably considered a re-post if there was no significant new information.

Other HN users flag. If you think it was flagged in error you can email HN.

there was an earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025061, so I assume that was the cause. checking frontpage and new is not enough to find dupes, use the search function.

I'd guess there are several reasons: i) people get fatigued with reports about the same characters over-and-over, ii) it's mainstream news, iii) it's an extension of a story people have already heard enough about, iv) it's not of interest for any technical reasons.

Didn't personally vote any such story, fwiw. I did find the related details of how companies can rig share sales against incomers to be interesting (and seemingly contrary to market capitalism).

Use the contact email to ask. My experience is you’ll receive a response from dang.

You should receive a response unless your email goes to spam and I fail to fish it out. But the response to the GP question will probably say "Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but" - followed by what is at best a guess.

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