I started collecting ER bills. The American Hospital Association started warning

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23 pointsjseliger4 comments

Flagged as clickbait. The American Hospital Association expressed no anxiety nor took any antagonistic action; rather the opposite. See the memo here: https://contentsharing.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?rec...

This is just an advertisement for Vox's project.

I read the entire article and it does not correlate with the title here at all. Does clicking "Flag" flag this for what you say is just advertising?

There's a bit about flagging in the guidelines -- use your own judgment: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not sure how flags are processed by moderators, but for automated ranking they are like a big downvote.

The guidelines also ask that we don't comment on flagging: just do it and move on.

> "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

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