The penalty applied to NSA stories --- if it still exists at all, since 'dang said last week he was considering ending it --- is tiny. The way I know that is: 'dang publically said it's tiny; the second smallest on the site, which has many penalties (almost all of them, as I understand it, quite boring).
I didn't flag the GCHQ online poll story, but I would have a very hard time arguing that someone who did was "abusing" the flag button. It's a marginal story, at best.
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The penalty applied to NSA stories --- if it still exists at all, since 'dang said last week he was considering ending it --- is tiny. The way I know that is: 'dang publically said it's tiny; the second smallest on the site, which has many penalties (almost all of them, as I understand it, quite boring).
I didn't flag the GCHQ online poll story, but I would have a very hard time arguing that someone who did was "abusing" the flag button. It's a marginal story, at best.