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 ‘report’ 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 can’t stand the idea that they may have done something wrong, and will vigorously insist that they haven’t 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 ‘report’ button.
If this doesn’t happen often, things end there. Otherwise…
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.
I’m not sure that the few spats in here raise to a level of 1 on the animus scale. At worse, it’s just hurt feelings and occasional pride overdrive.
SB, just a suggestion….delete the content in offending post and THAT should be enough of a warning. “CONTENT DELETED BY ADMINISTRATION” gets people’s attention.
My bigger beef is with sb and choosing a product code as a name. Seriously,…sb56637. Is that a test tube number? Amazon product number?
What’s wrong with …Boss? Big Guy? Master? Warden? Even Flashalot has more gravitas.
I mostly don’t really care to flag nor report any posts. I’ve 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.
It could be used in a sentence like: “Honey, I know it looks bad coming home four months late and three sheets to the wind with two eyepatches and a wooden leg… but I swear, I have a really good legscuse.”