[dhconnelly]

From the same link:

> 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.

[nicce]

Also considering the world situation, this might not be off-topic

[rvz]

So is that why it was flagged then?

It is off-topic. Unless the 'guidelines' are wrong?