If there's any other ideas on how we can get more people reporting and helping maybe we can get this forum a lot cleaner and get some of the readability back that I'm afraid we've lost in certain sections of the forum. If this is too resource heavy have it update every so often instead of instantly even if it updates every 2 weeks or month it should be sufficient enough.
I think any hero and legendary member with a good trust and merit score should be given some privileges to immediately ban users which they find are spamming or posting comments which are less than a certain character limit or are not helpful.
For ranks member above, legendary members can take the call while for newbies and jr. members hero members and above can take the call for ban.
If someone is wrongly banned, the user should be allowed to file a claim where if the user is found not guilty, then the merit score and the trust score of the person who banned will drop down! The claim can be handled by one admin and few of the trusted legendary members!
Mods can include 1 merit point for every x posts correctly reported and take away merits for incorrectly reported too.