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> reading the comments, probably because it is not what the title promises.

If that were the case, admins would simply change the title.

I suspect the reason is that it's a tool that is designed to violate a specific site's TOS, which I think this tool does.

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That admins could change the title doesn't mean users don't feel mislead and flag in the mean time.

I have observed that when I flag a title it is not publicly indicated to be flagged.

It's not a binary. There's a threshold of flags after which it is shown and a higher one after which it gets killed, scaled by other activity on the submission (and possibly some other internal factors, the details aren't really documented).

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