Yup, I just noticed it now.
I understand what you mean and I agree with the principle. It's same as in software or games testing, where reporting a bug for a flickering texture has a lower severity than a crash of the application or than a bug which makes you lose the progress you had so far. However, in testing industry, differentiating the severity of each issue was implemented from beginning and all bugs reported simply followed the reporting procedure: bug type X is considered blocker; bug type Y is considered as Critical; bug type Z is considered as Major; bug type XY is considered as Minor; bug type XZ is considered as Nice to have and so on.
Basically, you are suggesting a similar system here, for classifying each type of report, based on the impact on the forum of the reported post. But the difference between us (the forum) and the system used in bugs reporting is that here no such system was designed from beginning. So, in order to have a similar system a lot of work has to be done:
- classifying each type of report. But who will do that? theymos? theymos and mods? theymos and mods and users?
- how will this classification be done? Based on Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules & guidelines?
- after first two steps are completed then others come up -- educating mods to learn the new report severities; educating users to correctly use the new report severities (what will happen if mods will confound report severities when analyzing reports?)
- last step and, maybe, most difficult: how will be implemented this system? By changing the code of the forum?
As you see, although the idea is good, I don't know if it's also technically possible. Thinking just a little about it and so many questions appear. If it's too difficult to do it (although it may help a lot) then is it worth doing it? (Or, at least, trying to do it?) And so on...
And, excepting all of the above, having in mind that theymos will change, at some point, the forum software, the question about the usefulness of the effort come back: is it worth working on this old forum code to implement this feature, since the forum will be renewed in the future? (And, if it will be changed then all this work may have to be done twice?)