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> discourages overly aggressive flagging

I recently posted a tweet from pg [0] and as it starts getting some momentum, suddenly got flagged by someone who believes it is paywalled because Twitter rolled out the must-be-logged-to-view feature. It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment.

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0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563683

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> It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment.

Is it really unfair? Your link isn't accessible to a non-insignificant portion of the HN audience, therefore it seems reasonable to flag it.

It isn't reasonable to expect/force people to read comments before flagging content for being inaccessible.

I think you misread the latter part of the sentence - OP said they provided the raw text in a comment. This is no different than some other paywalled articles posted here where the first comment usually just links to the web archive for a non-paywalled version.

It may also have been flagged simply because pg tweeting yet again about Musk is one of the least interesting submissions possible.

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