It's against the site guidelines to talk about having flagged a post. That's probably why you got told off. Please don't complain that a submission is inappr

It's against the site guidelines to talk about having flagged a post. That's probably why you got told off. Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. Also relevant Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.