Keep. Reading.

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.

What are the disadvantages to complaining in the actual thread? I understand about making new submissions for the sake of complaining.

Because it always results in the same exchange of dialogue. If you don't think a post is appropriate, flag it. That does something that might result in action. All commenting does is consume space for nowt.

Commenting also lets people know that a post - like this one - is inappropriate for the site.

Well, that was my motivation. It's been on the front page for 6 hours now. Obviously the flagging system is broken for popular off-topic submissions. (We are all in agreement that this submission is flagrantly off-topic, right?)

No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA?

I remember very well all the coverage here about the occupy movement.

So just because it doesn't affect your ass directly doesn't mean it is off-topic.

Edit: Same thing as all the Turkey Riot threads. Did you comment against every one of them?

> No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA?

No. It's about politics, and in the mainstream news.

News that hackers might be interested in. Considering its page-rank, I'd say the OP succeeded.