I an writing this topic as I am sort of curious about what should actually happen after reporting a PM to "Admin".
As we all know,
29. Sending unsolicited PMs, including but not limited to advertising and flood, is not allowed.
Also as we all know, from time to time we receive unsolicited PMs. Take
philipma1957's recent case for example.
I don't know precisely how many times I reported unsolicited PMs, but I believe I did it for about 10-20 times. After hitting the "Report to Admin" button, you are asked to which admin(s) you wish to send the report. Options are: "to all forum administrators", to Cyrus, to hilariousandco, to mprep, to Mr. Big or to theymos:
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After sending the report the following message is displayed:
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And this is also the part which I do not understand: I always sent these reports to all admins, yet I was never contacted back by any of them. Is this normal?
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Please don't get my question as being sarcastic, because it isn't. I am just willing to understand if admins actually contact those which report unsolicited PMs; or if they usually do it; or if they usually
don't do it -- yet they do it from time to time etc.
Furthermore, I also do not know what happens after such reports are being sent. There is no way to see if these reports were flagged as good or bad (or as unhandled) and, since nobody contacts you to let you know if a decision was taken, then there is no way for knowing what happened with the user which sent the unsolicited PM. Was he sanctioned somehow? Was his PM considered as breaking rule 29? And so on.
Am I missing something here? All opinions are welcome, as long as they are on-topic.