No, the admin mods will take a story posted posted under News/Activism and downgrade it to Chat. It usually kills the thread. It was a health blog from the Times, and I wanted to save it, so I posted under this category. Pandora gets my pings for politics, foreign & military threads that you also get.
OK. It looked like you were making a connection between the two actions. FWIW I can’t find where you pinged me to this article anywhere on my comments page.