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Oh, thanks for the explanation, I see. Still, I would love the one that flagged it to explain what was in the story to flag... I really can't see what reason would it be to flag it. And I am not whining, I would really like to understand so next time I don't make the same mistakes. Still, the upvoting count was unchanged, if it was downvoted it did not show in the count. Well, thanks, living and learning.

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"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

...but I really think that if meat allergies, carbon emissions and fukushima are in the main page, then a pivotal, defining moment in USA foreign policy history should be allowed to be there too: the USA have just declared that they, as a general policy, do not recognize the political asylum figure. Not just in this case, but in general. That is pretty big in international affaires, and also an unexpected turn of events in the most important public information leak ever. Pretty important I thought, but the story seems to have been flagged yet again. Oh well, at least I know why you are flagging it, so Thanks for the heads up. Wow, position 688. You guys really love to smash to invisibility what you don't want others to read, uh?

I didn't flag it. I wouldn't have flagged this.

However, if I were to guess why someone would, it is leaning towards falling foul of the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" and its possible someone was fed up of seeing Assange on the front page.

I wouldn't worry too much about it though.

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