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If it's any consolation, my flag link vanished a long time ago after I went on a "purge all the self-promotional infidels" jihad last year.

I consider it a badge of honor to have restricted features but still have a working account. They care enough to limit us, but they don't want us completely gone.

I'm torn on the subject of sciencedaily. Without the linkbait-y headline, I doubt this paper would have any attention here. They should turn into a HN-like site with links to articles, then give each link a short (under 100 words) lay person description not just copy/pasted from the article (maybe even with linkbait conclusions). Sometimes you have to bend the truth (i.e. marketing) if you want people to get excited about your work.



>I consider it a badge of honor to have restricted features but still have a working account. They care enough to limit us, but they don't want us completely gone.

Hey, that's a nice way of looking at it.. I lost my flag link during "bitcoin week" last summer.


I lost mine recently too. I'd been trying to keep the number of political stories down as they very rarely have any useful discussion.


Same! Apparently I took the article submission guidelines too seriously?




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