The reason for the flag was simply because it was spam and an advertisement, and looked suspicious. You had made no effort to make me aware of your intent beforehand, nor did you ask how I felt about it. I realize that such communication is not easily done on Steemit, but the explanation you gave above would've been much preferred to what you did. There is no ill will and the upvote was appreciated. I have removed the flag but I suggest that you be more circumspect in your self-promotion as some people on Steemit pursue things like this far more aggressively than do I. I suggest that, at the very least, provide an explanation, an apology and other mitigating statements so you're not going to collect a lot of flags.