Which might merit a warning. Like if I was to call 666maslo666 a ****ing idiot. I'd fully expect to get a warning for that, but not a ban. Who gives a **** about doing it in reports no one except moderators can see?
*Puts on moderator hat*
Calling someone an idiot in a forum post would likely get you a warning, post moderation or a posting ban depending on how often you've done it before, what provocation was in the thread prior to your post, and how severe the insulting was. Calling someone an idiot in a post report would probably not get you any action at all because that's private.
The whole reason for that is in order to stamp out flaming before it get started. If you call someone names publicly, you're going to the one who gets in trouble for it because we don't want them feeling that they have to respond in kind. If you do it in a report though, only the mods and admins are going to see it so as NGTM-1R says, we don't mind a little venting when it's justified. That said, don't start composing particularly foul reports based on that.
banning people for reporting posts is not the kind of action a reasonable mod staff should ever take.
Really...
And mine didn't even have bad language in them.
We did explain at the time that you got into trouble for severe overuse of the report system to the point where you, one user, were generating a large percentage of the reports on this forum. Reports that by and large were worthless especially given that you didn't seem to understand the forum rules well enough at the time to not be the person that the majority of the other reports were about. No one is going to get in trouble for using the report system as it was designed. Abuse of the system on the other hand.....