There is a reasonable spread PEEDYC but it would also be fair to state that it is often the same people who feel concerned enough to post a report.

But it is indeed rare that these reports are done just to be vexatious (though it can happen). Sometimes it would be helpful though if folk suggested what rule they thought was being broken as comments do not always make this clear and it is not fair that we should then have to guess. In such cases we often seek further clarification from the reporter.

Sometimes a Moderator may actually be the reporter but when this happens we are acting as an ordinary member of X Marks and we have to use the reporting system in the same way as anyone else. It gives us no pleasure having to to that and perhaps we have developed, through experience, a sharper feeling of when it is necessary and when it is not. But whatever action we take as individuals it is still subjective to the collective decision of all the Moderator Team.