I fail to see the relevance for HN but it was a nice read anyway... too much mj coverage alltogether.
But it is interesting that those that don't, can only flag and shut up. No discussion of "is this needed here" is tolerated. But dozens of MJ stories are perfectly OK.
The bury brigade seems to be more than content to punish any kind of 'non adherence to the rules'. That makes it simple for me, next time I'll flag, interesting read or not.
A well thought out response to some question that gets relatively little traction here will gain you one or two points, but a 'faux pas' in a popular article that doesn't really belong here will get you -10 in total.