Best answer: There will be some disagreement on this but there are those with high TR that I have discussed this with (many) and we know this to be true.
I've been reported eight times (only one was a violation). It has had no affect on my insta-drop rate.
Being reported yourself does not affect whatever level of drop rate you have. By drop rate, I mean your ability to insta-drop a post all by yourself. Those that can do this have the highest possible TR.
What it does do, is make it easier for the person who just deleted one of your posts to drop more of them or for others with lower TR to delete you as well. They can report you the maximum of 20 times in a seven day period. (reporting comments counts toward the 20 and so does any post you don't insta-drop) For example, if you find an account with many violations, you may fail to drop a few out of the first batch of 20 but when you come back in seven days, the next 20 drop like stones because you have weakened the account. No, that is not stalking if ALL the reports are for blatant violations such as spam, posting links to porn, asdfasdf non-answers, etc.
If I delete something that Customer Care (CC) reinstates, it means that my TR takes a small hit. (if this happens a lot, your TR goes down much more and you can lose it all together)
But if you are a heavy-duty reporter, meaning you ACCURATELY and RESPONSIBLY do a lot of deletions, say several hundred a week, four or five reinstatements will have a negligible affect on your overall TR.
It WILL have an affect on your ability to insta-drop posts of the account that just won an appeal.
Keep in mind that this gets skewed because CC often reinstates blatant violations (and denies non-violations). For this discussion, only the wrong reinstatements are an issue.
I deleted something that was listed in the Community Guidelines as an example of a violation and it was wrongly reinstated. That person posted several of these obvious violations and when I went to report another one, it didn't drop. I was unable to delete any more violations by this person for a few days. That right there is proof that reinstatement of false reports DOES lower your ability to delete violations on a particular account, but it had no affect on my general reporting. Ironically, in that case, I did not report falsely.
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Your comment: "I've always been told that no one has the "one strike" ability to delete violations and that it takes more than one user to get something dropped."
There is a lot of misinformation being spread around about Community Moderation. A lot of people "claim" that it takes two or more reports but if that was the case, why does the email you get say, "The question on Yahoo Answers was reported and deleted by one or more trusted members of the Answers community"?
I know plenty of people who can drop a violation with their single report. You know it when you see a violating question that was posted seconds ago, and it only takes a few second to report it. Some people ask in here, how did my question get deleted within seconds of me posting it...it's because someone with insta-drop ability happened to see it at the top of the question stream right as it was posted.
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If it always took at least two people to drop violations, a great deal of nasty stuff and spam would never be removed. The whole point in being a "trusted" member is so we can do this, to help clean up the site. From the Community Guidelines: "Anyone can report abuse, but members who earn good reputations can help us detect and remove abuse more quickly."
That means that anyone CAN hit the report flag but the ones who EARN a reputation for good reporting remove it more quickly, as in instantly.
I think the reason you are getting conflicting information is because those who say it takes more than one report are ones with insta-drop ability who are being vague to avoid being spotted as someone who reports. Making emphatic statements about how Community Moderation works exposes you as a reporter. But I've also seen quite a few who do say in their answers that some can delete a violation with their one report.
The other part of your comment: "This supposedly prevents abuse by keeping one person from reporting and deleting non-violations."
No. If I wanted to, I could delete anything at all, whether it's a violation or not. Then my TR would drop as people won appeals against my false reports. Some people open several accounts and follow each report with each account until at least one of the accounts can insta-drop. And the "report monkey/troll" is born. But when those false reports are overturned on appeal, that account loses its TR and they have to start over again with a new batch of accounts.
