Community organized troll ban button?

I don't know if it's just me or whether we did it as a group, but I do not receive emails for every report. Keep in mind that when a spambot or troll manages to spit out 8 posts before getting stopped, all 8 posts get reported, often many times. In the past, our mailboxes have exploded.

We have a forum where the reports land. It works like this:
- The first person to report it initiates a thread. That thread contains the post being reported and whatever the reporting person writes. Around those two quotes is text putting the whole thing into perspective. For example:
Ryanpl has reported the following post:
Reason:
{quote}Looks like a spammer{/quote}
Post: Hello! <- link to post
Forum: Prius v
Assigned: Moderators
Posted by: Spambot <- link to user profile
Original Content:
{quote}Buy my cheap stuff at my website{/quote}

- everyone after that point who reports the post gets logged as a reply to the original report. Like this:
Chuck. has also reported this item.
Reason:
{quote}Looks like another one. . .{/quote}

Because these get created as new threads, if I do a [View New Posts] search, I will see the reports. But I also have a bookmark that takes me straight to the reports forum. Almost every time I come to Priuschat, I use the bookmark to first see if there are any new reports. If I'm on a different computer, I go straight to the forums main page (priuschat.com/forums) and see if there's an indicator icon of a new post in the reports forum.

This is just me. I don't know how the other Mods do it.

 

This is something I've said time and time again: when you report the spam, leave it alone. Don't reply to the spam and don't create a post indicating that you've reported the spam. The same goes for trolls.

Here's what happens:
[ORIGINAL]
F8L: Unwashed heathens, something or another.
Trebuchet: Unwashed is the truth.
H2Owner: Tree-hugging, save the Earth Hippies, read the CNG Report!
SlowTurd: Troll reported.

After we get the report and initiate a "bulk deletion cleaning" in which we tell the forum software to simply delete all posts by "H2Owner" it looks like this:
[RESULT]
F8L: Unwashed heathens, something or another.
Trebuchet: Unwashed is the truth.
SlowTurd: Troll reported.

Moving forward, anyone (especially Treb) will think that ST reported him as a troll. Very confusing and potentially confrontational.

So, to reiterate, report and walk away. Do not post about it.

 

Another side effect is that we have to clean up your posts as well otherwise confusion arises (as Tony explained) or we're left with you quoting the troll which means the message is still there.