Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:19:33 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on May 02, 2024, 08:45:17 PM

Google this: "Snitches get stitches"^**

If I may ask: how many posts have you reported? You seem to think reporting posts is a bad thing, I think it's a good thing. It's like calling waste collection when there's a pile of trash in your area.

My disclaimers did not work to show that I was largely just attempting to highlight a bit of a dilemma in the idea of disclosing who the highest level reporters are... not that the gangs of bad guys run the forum.

But, yeah, maybe my own way of framing the disclosing of reporters comes off as if I don't believe in reporting, which most of my reports have tended to revolve around shills, yet I am sure there are some other categories in which I believe posts go overboard.. so I am not even sure if I want to disclose my number of reports.. since I am not against reporting and I do engage in such activities myself.. .. but it is several hundred reports over the years... .. but yeah, I have been a forum member for more than 10 years, so I might not have reported very many posts my first couple of years, so yeah, sure, I most likely would not even make the top 1,000 reporters, but that does not mean that I am against reporting (and tattle tales.. to make it fun)..

I was just wanting to throw in some color with the idea of reporting in regards to showing the dilemma of disclosing high level reporters.. and so in that regard, it may or may not be the kind of an attention that a high level reporter wants.. .. .. yet it likely is not even as BIG of a point as I was making it out to be.. so maybe I should just retract the whole idea.. since it is not even that BIG of a deal to me.. and sure, we all benefit, even from the reporters who might be prolific in the sense of over-doing it.. .. so now.. look you got me to concede...and maybe even agree that maybe I should attempt to pick up my reporting game.. and surely I tend to report most of the posts that I believe to have gone overboard.. and even though I read a lot of posts, I do not necessarily end up come across a lot of posts that I find to be reportable.

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Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:19:33 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on May 02, 2024, 08:45:17 PM

Google this: "Snitches get stitches"^**

If I may ask: how many posts have you reported? You seem to think reporting posts is a bad thing, I think it's a good thing. It's like calling waste collection when there's a pile of trash in your area.

You don't need to certify him on the ground of reporting as many post as possible. Reporting post isn't bad either, it ensures the safety of everyone from scammers, spam messages and also post that isn't suppose to be under certain thread. No need to justify your point. But we need to have substantial evidence to back-up any report in order to avoid tarnishing identity of any member then up end retrieving such report.

I doubt that you need very much evidence to report the post of another member (0r even the conduct of another member that might be represented by a series of posts). You just should have a reason that you put in the report which suggest some kind of conduct that you believe to be in violation of the forum's rules... so there might not be a BIG downside to reporting... so for example, I don't tend to report posts that are not on topic, except if I were in a thread and the other member continue to push off-topic ideas (and the member was told to stop), then maybe after a while I might report those kinds of posts.

So, there are likely some kinds of posts that I could report, and I do not do it because I might find them to NOT go beyond my own concerns, even if technically they might be breaking a forum rule.. and another thing that some members do, is they just tell the member that they are breaking a forum rule, so that might help to get the member to stop. I know that sometimes I am bothered by failures to cite sources for information, and surely there are some posts that appear like they are done by bots rather than real people, but it can be quite difficult to spend time trying to figure out some of those kinds of matters.. and even for someone like me.. sometimes, I find that I am reading through a bunch of crappy forum posts, but they don't reach a level of reportability, even though they might not really be adding any value and might be difficult to read in terms of figuring out what kind of point they might be trying to make.. so yeah, it is nice to come across forum members who are able to present their points in interesting ways and to use examples and sometimes to point out references to support the points of their post.