[Sidebar Moderator]

Are the "Abuse" button abusers a large part of the problem?

When individual posters go overboard on the abuse button, they are dealt with one way or another. Usually without any bloodletting.

[Lead Moderator]

But sometimes with.

There have been suspensions and bans for Abuse abuse. But those people really went out of their way for it (posting hundreds of abuse reports in a minute, all the same, just to annoy the staff-- and foolishly doing so when Jim was the staff on at the time).