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Kaliko, seems you're implying that those who do and/or have reported others are cunts.
It's interesting, in the number of threads in which reporting posts has been discussed, I've seen those who have reported referred to as not being adults, wittle whiners, in need of a nanny, and now...cunts. Nice. *shrug* If the shoe fits...
Let's get real here. If you report something someone says to you, that's a fair call. If it's in response to something similarly cunt-like which you've said TO them or ABOUT them, then you're a whiny cry-baby and are behaving like a cunt to boot.
OK so that's you're opinion - Awesome!
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If you see something which is the product of a heated discussion between other people, is totally unrelated to you and decide to report it because you feel like it, then you're being a cunt. You're trying to control the forum by controlling what people can and can't say. The mods - as people KEEP pointing out - are human. And what that means is that a vocal minority of reporting cunts can control the forum by complaining en masse, EVEN if nobody's violated any rules. Because - as we've seen - mods will make up rules on the fly if need be.
Again, you're opinion. The "vocal minority" is probably a minority because the response to the "I report" comment is so predictable. Look at your response to me, after all? What is different in it than anything anyone before you had to say on your side of the argument? This post here says nothing different than in the 56 pages of the "Decline" thread.
If I've repeated in my posts about posting it's because every few posts someone is saying "I don't understand why people report others" as though the explanation hadn't already been given a hundred times.
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Your efforts to misrepresent your reporting behaviour as a community service are disingenuous.
Exactly what about my previous post is representing my behavior as "community service?"
I come to CM to enjoy myself. It's my little neighborhood playground. I like this playground, and I'm OK with abiding by the rules of the playground. Personal attacks are not allowed in the rules of the playground. I don't want to have to deny myself playing on the jungle gym - or only playing on certain parts of the jungle gym, because other people aren't following the rules. The personal attacks affect my enjoyment of this site. I don't want to have to avoid threads or have to sift through post after post to get to the fun stuff. I find *that* to be an imposition on *me.*
I have never said I've reported for anyone's behalf but my own. It's purely selfish reasons that bring me to report.
So please do not falsely accuse me of intentions I never once said I had.
And for what it's worth, the most recent ticket on my ticket list is Feb, 2012 - a year ago - because some new dude was bringing up necro thread after necro thread. But hey, maybe we should have let him, huh? He was having fun, after all. And it's not up to anyone here to provide a "community service" by reporting. 
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Don't like what you see? Then hide the poster. Easily fixed.
Thank you for the advice but I'm good doing what I'm doing. Reporting a post here & there is just fine for me. I dont need to abide by YOUR rules here, so you can pass on telling me how to enjoy the forums.
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Don't like that they're dominating the conversation regardless? Well then fucking TOUGH.
Don't like that people report posts for violating TOS? Well then fucking TOUGH. (see, either side can use that argument - which is why it's a ridiculous argument and does nothing to contribute to any solutions).
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If people are responding to them, then they're stimulating the conversation and that's a good thing. Harden the fuck up and stop trying to be a control-freak on the forums because other people are giving attention to someone YOU DON'T LIKE.
I'd hardly say one reported post in a year is being a control freak (previous posts were in 2011, about the sock brigade, but then I've already said in several posts that I rarely report, but it still seems to stir up hostile responses).
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You claim you don't like reading through a bunch of abuse - I don't like reading through a bunch of regulars derailing a thread to engage in mutual ego-stroking FOR FUCKING PAGES. Yet, I don't report them, I'll just deal with it myself. This is called "being an adult". Some of you may want to consider the merits of such an approach.
Not reporting is your option, just as reporting is an option for others. I don't care what you choose to deal with yourself; I didn't ask about that. I don't need someone to try to convince me to change a behavior. I only answered several repeated questions about WHY people post.
In MY world, being an adult is having the ability to have an exchange without name calling and bullying. To quote you, "Some of you may want to consider the merits of such an approach."
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