Quote from: Royse777 on September 18, 2019, 10:05:46 AM

Quote from: Welsh on September 17, 2019, 09:19:47 PM

Yeah, I deleted a few of your replies because I agreed that they were unsubstantial.

You did your job and I am not complaining about it at all. I had two reasons to create this topic:

1. I was curious to know the reasons given when reported.
2. Should a (some) very old post (posts) worth reporting unless it contains harmful contents like malware to download or phishing link etc (obviously both offense are ban worthy)

And while we discuss about these two points the other stuffs comes as side dish like possibility of ban for too many deleted posts by mods etc.

The answer for my question #1 is very straight forward which you and hilariousandco (^ post) confirmed and it's reasonable, and I am not complaining for any of it.

For the send one, obviously we will find mods will have different views and glad to know hilariousandco's (again ^) view about it. I agree with them here (bold emphasized):

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I think it's not really necessary to report them either but people are free to report whatever they wish.

Concerning the second issue then I would tend to somewhat agree, although I don't feel like someone should have a bad report because they've reported a post older than x amount. There's not any rules that say you shouldn't report posts which were posting x amount of days, months or years ago. So, its kind of a conflicting opinion in my eyes. Possibly, what I might do in the future is remove replies which have been reported on active topics only. In other scenarios where the thread has been dead for a long time, possibly mark the report as good, and message the user who reported it saying its not necessary, but I've marked it as good this time. However, if the user keeps on reporting that post, and another moderator deals with it they could game the system to get a report badge, and I'm not sure if that's even an issue to worry about.

I honestly don't know the best way of going about this, and I imagine there's a few moderators that do it differently. However, it certainly hasn't gone against you, and you can look back at my replies, and I'll have some insubstantial posts especially when I was new to the forum. I've had posts deleted before, and have even deleted some myself because I thought they were low quality on second look. Don't worry, us moderators don't have a section where we note down all the reports we've handled, and put a red mark against users Wink