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Originally Posted by patteeu
You can't take action until someone else reports a post? You have to take action that you wouldn't have taken on your own initiative if someone else reports a post? What does this really mean?
If you read it and it's banworthy, why wouldn't you ban him? If you read it and it doesn't seem banworthy to you, why would you ban him just because one of his enemies reports him?
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It's perplexing the way you seem to be using the reporting system. You're effectively encouraging people to run to the mods with complaints rather than using ignore or thick skin. You're also unnecessarily making the rules less clear because posters will read something like Frazod's hispanic references all day without seeing him banned but then when they use the same, seemingly acceptable reference a month from now and get reported (perhaps because they've got a different, more thin skinned target than Frazod), the hammer comes down. The incentive system is screwed up.
Have you ever banned someone for filing a report when they should have used ignore instead? Maybe you should consider something like that.
I understand the value of the reporting system when moderators aren't around to see a real problem, but the way it's being used at the moment creates as many problems as it solves, IMO.