It did get posted by another person, here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4301502/posts
Did you post it after of before that?
It could have been a wrong choice by the Admin and instead he meant to lock it and route comments to the earlier one.
“and route comments to the earlier one.”
They only lock or delete. Editing headlines to repair stuff for the OP or moving comments doesn’t happen. Instead of a courteous title edit they lock it with a message of “try again”.
It is an extremely simple thing to just edit it rather than locking the whole thread or deleting it and making someone start all over from scratch.
I have seen some very extensive and detailed posts that took a lot of time and work treated as if they are completely insignificant and worthless.
I have many with a claim of “bogus headlines” were applied towards and went and looked and they were absolutely accurate word for word from the source.
Obviously the mod didn’t even click on it to go see or not. Or had a personal bias against the topic.