We are trying to raise the standards of news items here
Obviously.
After just reviewing what you originally posted as news item, I do not think think that this is worthy to be approved as a news release.
I do think that a poll which ended up
collecting 850 votes is newsworthy, but I'll admit that this is debatable - e.g. an AW moderator refused to post it as news for the same reason you just mentioned.
But there are several problems here:
1. There was no explanation given. On AW, I got a PM from the moderator. I didn't agree with the reasoning, but at least I knew what was going on - and it's their site to run, after all.
2. Given the poll's topic, you're the very last person who should make such a call.
3. I still don't know why the thread was closed and by whom. If it's not newsworthy, move it to a different forum. Why close it?
Maybe instead of opening a thread it would be better to get the mods attention by pmailing ?
I still don't know which moderator closed the thread, I would have had to PM a random mod? Besides, the forum I used is called "Amiga.org Discussion and Site Feedback", I assumed that's what it was intended for.