[dang]

This was submitted and flagged several times but as far as I can tell it's a substantive article with lots of information. We've changed the inflammatory title to the more neutral subtitle and are going to try turning off flags. (For an object lesson in how determined discussion can be by title alone, the alternate submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656463 is interesting.)

All: if you comment on this please make sure your comment is substantive and edit out any flamebait. Let's see how far we can get with a civil discussion.

[throwanem]

I like the motivation. But it looks like everybody's afraid to start. (Me too. I've had a lot to say on pretty much every topic that's covered or even touched here. But I don't want to risk attracting a dogpile on a day when I lack the wherewithal to juggle a lot of arguments and give each the respect it deserves.)

[clydethefrog]

I tried to post this article a couple hours ago and I've got a message it was submitted​ before, without a link to the submitted article. Search resulted in nothing. Are there special measures to blocking articles and making them not even searchable? In the past I could still find flagged articles via search.

[dang]

Probably those articles were [dead] in addition to being [flagged] and you don't have 'showdead' (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) set to 'yes' in your profile.