I didn't know how to flag this question and ended up choosing 'other (needs ♦ moderator attention)' and leaving a note as to why I think it should be closed.
This turns out to be the wrong way to go - so which reason would be correct in this case?
P.S I wanted to choose 'This is not about Ubuntu...', but the recommendations offered will then only guide the user to other software related sites and not hardware ones - should hardware sites maybe be included in this list?
Flags are used for issues that need specific moderator attention.
They are used sometimes to flag posts that should be handled by users with more reputation and privileges, in this case the privilege of voting to close. Flagging should not be use to circumvent that, if it can be handled by users with more reputation then it should, that is why you flag was possibly rejected with Declined: flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention.
I think from all possible action, what you did was the best one. But not really necessary to be flagging everything. Spend that time getting some more reputation and you will be able to vote like other users do.
