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My apologies. I'm sure I did overreact. But when someone flags a submission that could well have been part of one's autobiography for arbitrary deletion as hopelessly offtopic it does feel rather like a slap in the face. This is presumably why the "flag" vote total is kept secret, and folks aren't encouraged to post replies talking about how or why they flagged something.

But it was almost certainly an innocent mistake (it's not as if the intended use of the "flag" button is known to anyone who hasn't read the entire guidelines page or been present during its invention) so I'm sorry that my reply came out as snippy as it did.



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