I recently had one of my reports marked as "bad", and it's irritating me more than I thought it would.
I've been there, it used to feel like a slap in the face for trying to help the forum. Until I changed my view on it: recently I "proudly" made my 100
th Bad report (out of 9666).
Because I'm still finding my feet with reporting, I'm careful to (mostly) only report things that are objectively against the rules, and don't contain much (or any) of a subjective component to them.
That means you try to avoid border cases, I like to report them too to see where Mods draw the line. A "Bad" is basically a calibration of my reporting style. I made most of my Bad reports a long time ago, nowadays it's rare I make a Bad report. So "calibration" works
To the mod that handled that report (should be easy to find, I've only made 197 reports so far, and this is the first bad one): please PM me.
If you reach 300 good reports, you can see which one is marked Bad. But the history goes back only 30 days, so there's a bit of a time limit.
[1] Unless it's an older "unhandled" report that was revised
I don't think that happens, I expect older reports to disappear from the Mod's list too.
when a high rank or respected user make a mistake, I report it and there's no action by the moderators because his post is still exist.
It varies per board: on the Meta board, posts are rarely deleted. It's almost the same on Reputation. Mods seem to be more lenient on those boards, even for posts that are 100% off-topic.
