It’s probably better to quitely report abuse, rather than to start a thread out in public where the disruptors could add innocent names to it.
***I have no information on that. I don’t know how many of us freepers have quietly reported abuse and gotten no action. I do know that we have openly tried it and gotten a thread pulled. If I had confidence in the process I would follow it.
Here’s a ferinstance. I saw keyword abuse on the certifigate threads, reported it and the admin mod zotted the troll “searchin”. Then a while later I saw some more keyword abuse, reported it and whoever was on admin mod duty at the time basically said they were not going to do anything about it. I cc’d JimRob and the admin mod said, “whatever floats your boat”. The keyword abuse continued.
Well, I just know the Mods have a huge job to do, and no two people see things in exactly the same way, so we should expect there to be some difference in the decisions they make.
Whatever the case, I would still be concerned about innocent people being reported on a public thread created to OUT the trolls.
Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Far from it.