My question is; are we meant to create threads reporting flooding / forum rule 1 violation or reporting directly to the moderators?. Isn't it violation as well taking laws into our hands by making a thread out of posts that are meant to be treated directly by the moderators. I believe moderators have the right to delay in taking action while the take their time to investigate reports.
You still haven't learned about the blessed freedom of speech in this forum. If in your case you see a flooder that you think deserves a ban you can just report him or open a thread like this one, which is totally fine as well. Besides this thread is a counterattack against the luddism expressed in this one:
Thread to discuss acceptable uses of flooders in the forum
That it considers any use of AI in the forum illegitimate, which is obviously false, and equates it with flooding, which is also false.
If reports have been made I think it is best to sit back and allow the moderators do their job. Lots of cases get reported frequently and we don't expect them to just jump into every reports and pass judgement immediately without a fair evaluation and critical care so the pass the right judgement.
Ok, tell me who has said in this thread that the moderators have to rush to ban this guy so we (you and I) can argue against him.