I agree, as long as you're talking about YCombinator posts, not HN posts in general. I check out the /newest list every time I visit HN, and I flag spam (which

I agree, as long as you're talking about YCombinator posts, not HN posts in general. I check out the /newest list every time I visit HN, and I flag spam (which is surprisingly common). These are value-less submissions, so they normally don't have any comments. Not having a flag option for these posts would defeat the purpose of flagging.