Thumbs up on a great job of keeping BLF on the top! 
Hey DavidEF, also thanks to you for your input.
The thing is, this assumes malicious intent by the reporting user. As I mentioned earlier, I often review the reported posts, and the report is almost always justified. Iām not trying to cut down on the number of reports, but rather on the amount of ancillary fights and arguments that break out (usually in public) as a result of a report, however well justified the report may be.
Thatās a fair point. But I would like to emphasize that this is not granting impunity to any shady actors. I can and do fully audit both the receiving and the giving parties with the Report button, and in the rare cases that I have observed abuse I usually permanently close the userās account.
Why donāt people just send a PM when they think someone is rude (not to sb 
) and have a wee argument about it between themselves? 
So what happens now?
I understand that not much has changed except people canāt see what they have written that has been marked rude by someones opinion so donāt get a jist for it and may continue genuinely unaware.
Do you have a limit that once reached forum members get a surprise (or not so surprise) dressing down or warning message from the admin, or banned?
Asking for a friend
No firm limits, every case is different. But unless itās a total psychopath they always get several warnings first. As I mentioned, most bad behavior comes from a small number of repeat offenders that donāt really appear to care about their number of reports and arenāt trying to improve. In my experience here, Iāve seen more cases of users reacting well to one of my PMs and changing their behavior than users that analyze their reported posts and self-moderate themselves. Nobody has been banned on a whim just because of an occasional slip-up or for having a bad day; you practically have to ask for it to get banned.
Also I should mention that when I talk about closing the account(s) of users that abuse the Report button, I donāt mean cases where I donāt personally agree with the report. Everyone has their own opinions and particular sensitive spots, and I respect that. So donāt hesitate to report a post if you think it violates the BLF Rules. Accounts are only closed for abuse in extremely obvious cases of somebody trying to game the system, and I canāt even remember the last time that happened.
my only personal complaint was for trying to moderate a rude comment.
I should have just pushed the button.
Probably the best move for everyone SB.
Good work sb56637!
In keeping with making BLF a happy place, what about a LIKE button?
Typically, what happened was:
- Someone posts something rude.
- Someone else hits the āreportā button.
- The person who was reported explodes into a flurry of angry messages. Some are public, which turns the thread into a war zone for a while, and some are private, which tend to go to SB.
- More people hit the āreportā button, or respond to the angry posts.
- Explosion intensifies.
- SB and everyone in the thread ends up with a headache.
Most people are fine, but there are always a few who canāt stand the idea that they may have done something wrong, and will vigorously insist that they havenāt erred. The only way they know to respond is by escalating the conflict. This, of course, only makes things worse.
By making the meter invisible, the expected outcome is:
- Someone posts something rude.
- Someone else hits the āreportā button.
- If this doesnāt happen often, things end there. Otherwiseā¦
- If a lot of reports come in, SB intervenes to do something about it. SB is good at this, and things usually turn out well.
In theory, there should be far fewer headaches.
Iām not sure that the few spats in here raise to a level of 1 on the animus scale. At worse, itās just hurt feelings and occasional pride overdrive.
SB, just a suggestionā¦.delete the content in offending post and THAT should be enough of a warning. āCONTENT DELETED BY ADMINISTRATIONā gets peopleās attention.
My bigger beef is with sb and choosing a product code as a name. Seriously,ā¦sb56637. Is that a test tube number? Amazon product number?
Whatās wrong with ā¦Boss? Big Guy? Master? Warden? Even Flashalot has more gravitas.
Just sayingā¦. 
TK, you can tell from your analysis above that you do a lot of coding!
And the numbers would be āLEGGSā if you look at it upside-down in a calculator.
Like Barkutiās pic that scarred me emotionally for life?
I mostly donāt really care to flag nor report any posts. Iāve learnt to just reply via PM or ignore it. Trollers feed on our replies.
Keep posting useful stuff guys, share what you think is good for the community and ignore those bad.
- Clemence
I never noticed that!
sb
Itās a bit of a stretch, but yeahā¦ LEggSqs
leggs qs
Leggs queues?
Leggscuse? Like an excuse for legs?
It could be used in a sentence like: āHoney, I know it looks bad coming home four months late and three sheets to the wind with two eyepatches and a wooden legā¦ but I swear, I have a really good legscuse.ā
@Lightbringer - Everyone needs a Plan B in life, have you ever thought of a career with the FBI as a code breaker, I reckon you might be alright?
thanks SB.
.1134 Lightbringer! :student: Brilliant epiphany there, although you did just severely date yourself with that comment. 
