There's no relationship between "not pulled because nobody tattled" and "Therefore content is not the only reason". It does not follow. It certainly would not be pulled unless someone complained or unless the owner/mod just happened to see it.
I don't want to insult your intellegence by running this point into the ground but the abuse feature wouldn't be there if the owner/mods read every single reply on every thread. It exists so a post in question can be brought to their attention and then they make a decision about whether it should be pulled. By making "Abuse" available they are implicily encouraging it's use. By making it available for me I incur a certain responsibility not to abuse the abuse feature.
I am a retired union member, I am against the death penalty, I like Wal-Mart, my wife is in management there. I have had plenty of discussions on these issues and have been called a lot of names and I have never reported anyone for abuse in those exchanges. I just learned to ignore the posters whose idea of a debate is to call me names.
I hope you followed the link I posted. That poster was wrong in his remark about "white trash" and he knew it and eventually dropped it. (No one was reported for abuse)
If you reply to this, I probably won't answer until tomorrow. It's getting real close to my bed time here in the central time zone. You have a good night.