Not very many at all. I really don’t care what people have to say tbh. I’m just here to chill and read/chat.
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None. It’s pretty rare I flag a post.
I only flag the ones comment’s that offend me 
I don’t. Someone would have to absolutely say something heinous along the lines of telling another person to end themselves. Otherwise, carry on.
that wouldn’t stop people.
That won’t happen though. After the whole panic in the 80’s/90’s over music, TV, Movies, etc - and games. The industry set up a ratings board and volunteered to make sure things are suitable for the age in the rating. The real time player interactions like names and chat can’t be reviewed so can’t be rated. To avoid possible lawsuits and bad press that happened not long before WoW released, they keep the player rules very family friendly.
Most games have social rules in them, and no game company that I know of lists every single word, topic, or phrase you can’t say. That would be impossible and people would get around it easily.
Vrak just addressed the topic yet again tonight in CS
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never gonna happen. every single forum has this for a reason. mods are NOT proactive 90% of the time.
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Zero. Let chaos reign.
How often do you find yourself rushing for the cops to silence a stranger for discussing something you don’t like in a public setting?
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The game is not a Public place like a town street. It is Private Property with rules you agree to, and rules they enforce when customer’s report those who break the rules. WoW is a private club, if you want to think of it that way. They could have a dress code if they wanted.
Private Property where if you behave inappropriately they show you the door for a bit. At least they don’t wash our mouths out with soap. I always hated that.
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I’m aware of Blizzard being able to set the rules and dictate what they want.
I’m using your analogy to understand why you flag posts.
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Well, they only enforce certain rules. There’s a certain leaning to what the mods will allow.
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I don’t Flag posts.
I get flagged.
We are not the same.
Depends. If it’s a day when someone decided to speedrun a forum ban by putting up a post with a controversial subject, I might run out of flags before I get through it.
On the average day when no one does that? Maybe one every couple of days.
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How many good boy points do you get for these efforts?
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I get the satisfaction of being on a video game forum that generally stays on topic and isn’t an openly hostile environment.
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And the dopamine hit of seeing posts get removed to inflate a sense of power that doesn’t exist irl?
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I imagine that the “dopamine hit” is significantly less than a theoretical dose from picking fights with people about unrelated, extraneous subjects on discussion boards for a video game.
I’m not sure why here is apparently the place for it, though, when there are so many other venues out there that wouldn’t so much as lift a finger to stifle every last thought that people had in their head from getting typed out by their fingers. Ones specifically for discussing the things that they always seem to want to talk about, even!
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Very rarely, once every half year or so. It’s rare someone will post something so outrageously hostile and rude that I’ll automatically whack the flag button. Until that point I see no reason, even if something is against the ToS. It reminds me of school and children going: Teacher, teacher, so and so did this! Didn’t like it then, don’t like it now 
Personally I think there can be a big difference between feeling offended and something objectively being offensive. It’s ok to agree to disagree, and even to think someone is a bit of a douche. I still don’t see that as a reason to flag someone.
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You realize most people don’t even pay attention to what happens to a flagged post? The forums don’t tell you if action was taken or not. People flag and move on.
I think Jal has a point, the people picking fights are there to engage and watch people get upset - that is what Trolling is. People who flag it know that nothing will happen right then, and they will never know exactly what happened to the poster. There is no immediate gratification, or benefit.
We have no power, none. The only one with any “power” is Blizzard if you count being a janitor cleaning up text spew as power.
People report things not because they get things out of it, but because they would rather not sit in a cesspool. I don’t let people potty their dogs on my lawn either.
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