He should have linked to his website instead of putting the link in the text area. It's not OK to put the URL in the text field where it's intentionally not clickable, without a good reason. If you want to do commentary, either post a comment or make a blog post and submit that url.
I've seen that done hundreds of times and nobody ever made an issue of it, usually it gets reposted as a comment by someone else. That's insufficient reason for a flag or a deletion. Apparently it was a duplicate submission.
