Behavioral warnings? This feels like a weak tie-in in order to discuss reporting, but … No, it has no impact on the forums.
No, abuse of the reporting option would be if someone is using multiple characters or accounts to report a post. Simply reporting a post because they feel it may violate forum policies isn’t abuse.
They may not be correct in their assessment, but being wrong isn’t abuse.
It is rare that someone would report a post for “no reason”. They absolutely have a reason and while you may not agree with it, that doesn’t mean they are abusing the system.
Again, abuse would be if someone used multiple characters or accounts to report a single post. It might be considered abusing the reporting system if someone were using a category like “Real Life Threat” when reporting Trolling or Harassment. However, simply reporting a post, isn’t abuse.
There is definitely time, Cooperbrew. We still have people moderating. Understand, moderation is not always black or white. If someone uses inappropriate language in a post, there is a clear violation and easily dealt with, but the category of trolling is more nebulous. Sometimes it isn’t a single post that would put a poster’s conduct into trolling but it is something seen over several posts/threads.
If a moderator only saw one of your “Disable Chat” posts, which may have been reported for trolling, they may think your advice peculiar, but not necessarily trolling. So in reviewing that report they may just reject it and restore the post. However, if they were moderating over several hours/days and noticed that you seem to jump into every thread on the same subject with that same bit of “advice”, they may agree with the folks reporting that perhaps, taken on a whole, the posts are a bit more non-constructive than originally thought.
That’s not exactly true. Looking at your posting history the majority of your posts haven’t been reported at all. It is the ones with your “disable chat” message that are.
Reporting those, isn’t considered abuse nor is it harassment.