I am just speculating but here's what I think will happen. If you report too many posts which didn't had anything wrong with them, then after sometime mods won't pay attention to your reports.
AFAIU they don't ignore reports like you are speculating.
Well maybe not at first but if you keep reporting posts which don't need to be reported at all and/or if they suspect that one is simply trolling then they might stop paying attention to them or simply ban them or take away their reporting rights (if there is such a thing).
That would be bad moderation imo. Reporting posts that are doesn't need to be reported will likely lessen your accuracy on reporting. Also, I don't see how "trolling" could actually help the discussion in any way; you can report those troll posts if you think that it is an off-topic reply or doesn't have something to do with the OP or any posts within that thread. And afaik in this forum, there is no such thing as removing the report privilege everyone has because it is one way of helping the mods on removing insubstantial posts and/or replies.
No I didn't say anything about reporting troll posts, I would leave that for the moderator's discretion unless someone is really off-topic, I was talking about Report Post Trolling and I meant if someone is reporting just for the sake of trolling then they might get banned or have their reporting privileges taken away.
Well maybe not at first but if you keep reporting posts which don't need to be reported at all and/or if they suspect that one is simply trolling then they might stop paying attention to them or simply ban them or take away their reporting rights (if there is such a thing).
A reply from the MOD:
Also, what if half the number of my reports are "BAD", will the MODs start disregarding my future reports?
No. It might effect your chances of ever becoming a mod if your accuracy isn't very good though (if that is something you would be interested in).
But may be if a person does report 100-1000 posts which are all BAD, their reports may be excluded although I don't feel the MOD will do that as it's their job to check reports.
Also, I don't think anyone would waste their time reporting so many posts which are unnecessary. It's an extreme case.
Trolls have all the time in the world but that's not what I meant. I meant if one is abusing the report post feature with nonsense then their reports might not get handled and in the end they might get banned.