I'm glad to hear the 'ctb by driving into oncoming traffic' thread was deleted. A lot of members were disapproving and commenting on it, so I didn't feel the need to report it. The general community's stance on this was pretty unanimous so having all their feedback visible was good, after a while I just got sick of seeing it so I haven't been checking back.
The passive terrorism comments, I guess I could report, but I wouldn't feel the inclination to do something like that before seeing how quickly my comment was busted down in the 'people with terminal disease, people in ICU, and dying cancer patients are lucky' thread. It's not in my nature to go around reporting everybody who I don't like or whose comments I don't agree with, though it seems someone did that to me and is likely the reason why my comment was deleted so quickly.
Sure it was sarcastic (as I'm not the sort of person who would agree with being jealous of rotting away with something like cancer or a motor neurone disease) but I wasn't encouraging harm, I wasn't being insulting, and telling the OP not to feel upset and that maybe they might receive what they are wishing for is nowhere near as questionable as what the OP was saying, imo. So I might think about reporting some things now just because I feel that's a bit ridiculous.
The only time I ever reported someone was when a new user was being callous towards Wrennie- it took quite a while before that comment was removed and the user eventually banned after making multiple nasty remarks, mostly towards females and users that he perceived to be female. I'm glad that it was dealt with appropriately but ngl it would have been good to see it happen as fast as my comment was deleted.
And the main ' **** you ' comment I referred to has in fact not been scrutinized. But I like the user who said it and understand his feelings, as it was made in response to another users terrorism-esque comments, so I won't be reporting him. My thoughts aren't really about the examples of other comments, as much as how much scrutiny mine received when it did not violate the rules of the forum. Therefore clearly not all discussion is candidly and openly allowed here, by any means.
I'm not having a go at the mods or the site. We can talk about things here that are not able to be talked about elsewhere. There are indeed boundaries with what is allowed to be said and what is not, I'm simply pointing this out. I appreciate this place and the work of all the mods, I know the mods have a lot of responsibility and can't be everywhere at the same time, and I'm not blaming you or any other mods for anything.