HACKER Q&A
📣 Spod_Gaju

I'm trying to understand flagging a submission


So I submitted an A Substack article that I wrote and I understand this could be misconstrued as promotion, but it was not promotion. Just an idea I wanted to share with people. It seemed like it was getting some traction when suddenly it was flagged.

I don’t know who to reach out to or ask why this would happen and I don’t know if this was done by, hacker news done by people who saw the article.

Thanks for any info.

  👤 talldayo Accepted Answer ✓
I think people flagged it because it is considered extremely poor-taste to share medical research not furnished by a doctor. It's fine to open a topic for discussion, but this is not a site staffed by trained medics or anything; most of us are nerds, we'll just be arguing over something inconsequential anyways.

So, I think your submission was good-faith but people were right to flag it. It's not really the sort of discussion that ever ends well online, especially when it's not a medical forum staffed by professionals that can mediate the discussion.

👤 sickofparadox
FWIW I was following your thread the other day and through it was interesting. I look forward to hearing about whatever ADHD stuff you alluded to in the comments.
👤 troydavis
> I don’t know who to reach out to

If the other answers here don't answer your question, there's a contact email address on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

👤 pwg
> why this would happen and I don’t know if this was done by, hacker news done by people who saw the article.

Flagging is done by regular users. So it would have been regular users who saw your submission and then flagged it.

Why? -- well answering that requires a mind-reading skill we don't have.