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