the one in politics. it was closed before there were any replies.

Probably because you didn't give any comments or actually start a debate. You just kind of gave a link and that was that.

the question was in the title of the thread. should i have rewritten it inside the post? seems redundant.

All I can recommend is that you PM Goofy requesting an explaination and some advice to how to avoid it happening again. Works for me.