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It doesn't. It has shown this banner for years, for anyone with a HackerNews referrer.

As for the flagging, the guidelines say otherwise. A change in leadership and governance of a prominent open source project is noteworthy to the point that discussion on HackerNews is a perfect fit.

Right here, of all places, people should be able to either understand the banner, or ignore it and get to the point of the article.

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What I mean is that OP presumably submitted a link to this blog post because s/he intended to share the blog post. Without their knowledge, it became about the warning at the top of the page which wasn't there when they submitted. What OP submitted was not what we saw.

I suppose that's possible. Oddly enough, we haven't seen pabs3 take part in their own submission.

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