An additional little suggestion that might help: Expand the comment box on the reporting page. I've since started using a script to do that automatically, but it's really difficult to write a meaningful comment to the mods, especially one that needs to be a couple of sentences long, when you can only see ~40 characters at a time.
Yeah, I remember a few times I literally typed it out in a text editor, and then copied it over. Those where the days! I haven't taken a look at much of the development in the new forum software, but hopefully these little quality of life features will have been considered. Keep up the good work at reporting though! You are helping with my therapeutic therapy 
Similar things have been suggested before. In the end it comes down to rewarding members with merits, like a payment, for offering a service (finding spammers) which is not the reason why the merit system was implemented.
It could create a huge log of reports for moderators to handle. Users will report as much as possible only thinking about their end-reward.
Personally I have nothing against users getting some sort of reward for helping out the forum but not sure that the admins will agree that it should be merits. Curious to see their response as well.
It could create a huge log of reports for moderators to handle. Users will report as much as possible only thinking about their end-reward.
Personally I have nothing against users getting some sort of reward for helping out the forum but not sure that the admins will agree that it should be merits. Curious to see their response as well.
Just to add onto this also. This is why I considered giving out payments, although that also has its drawbacks. Honestly, I couldn't care what the motives behind someone reporting is as long as they're not gaming the system. Therefore, I don't mind offering rewards up for users that are using the system properly, but as soon as payment is introduced I know that it will be gamed to no ends. I'm not a big fan of handing out merits for reporting, although I wouldn't critique anyone doing it as there's far worse things they could be wasted on.