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asking others to flag an article is not about sharing an opinion, but an attempt for a flag to actually have consequences. this was removed from the front page

• perching_aix 2y ago
  > asking others to flag an article is not about sharing an opinion It's also not what I pointed at to be an opinion, but this: > This is not a forum for original research. Additionally, this community is not well-equipped for sober analysis of divisive topics. Interesting thing to point out nonetheless, will mull it over. > due to these flags I do not believe this can be established. I further find it very unlikely that people would flag a post decidedly because this specific downvoted person encouraged them to. > to defend the claim someone didn't do exactly what they did This is not a claim that was posted in the comments I was replying to, and so it's impossible for me to be defending it. I take you mean why am I defending the people who flagged the post and have encouraged others to do so - ignoring that this defending behavior is completely perceptual on your end, I wrote what I did because the reading that "they did it so that it would prevent discussion" is a different one, is implying more than the former, and I believe is strongly misleading and conspiratorial as a result.