Oh my goodness! I never noticed that before. No I was not joking. I guess I never tried to report anything. I fight my own battles. I never was one to run to the teacher and tattle.
The abuse button is there for us to report violations of FR’s posting guidelines to the moderators. It is not tattling. It is there to help maintain FR’s standards.
So if someone hits the abuse button on my post and it gets deleted, am I notified of that some way?
The abuse button is generally used to keep this site free of posts that are just unacceptable, of course the moderators and owner have the final say as to what is unacceptable, the abuse button is only able to bring their attention to a particular post. When used properly it is to protect the overall site integrity, not to settle scores or “tattle” per say. In my opinion it is what keeps this site civilized as opposed to some sites that are chaos.