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Why is this flagged?

This obviously content that is worthy to take note of, and YouTube moderation are making clowns of themselves by banning content that is trying to prevent people from killing themselves or others.



It looks like a boingboing article about it made it to the front page, so that's probably a better way to consume the info.


Because it is a shit headline written as by a mad 13 year old to attract an audience on some tabloid.


NB: Hacker News guidelines specifically permit (and encourage) un-clickbaiting headlines. Submitters can do so (I almost always leave a note about how I've edited a title if I do so).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Readers can also email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com to both report and suggest alternatives to overly-clickbaity headlines. I'd done so in this case.

My suggested headline edit is pretty much what the BoingBoing story used, and I'd first suspected that the headline and link might have been changed. Apparently that was an independent submission.

See that submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31945425


Because it's clickbait.




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