Oh boy I'd definitely like this option. Sometimes, after a night of heavy drinking, I decide to read a few threads on Bitcointalk for a few minutes before I go to bed. It has already happened like around 3 times already that instead of giving 1 merit to certain posts, for some reason my drunk brain instead makes me click on the report button and type the "1" there instead.
Yep.
Someone should invent a breathalyser that pugs into the USB that you have to pass before you boot up your browser... or maybe put your credit card details into a site. Might stop a lot of drunken impulse purchases or embarrassing emails to your exes at 2AM
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There have been quite a few occasions where I have reported a post or new topic for being low value, spam, off topic, wrong board, etc., and then became suspicious of the content and the user posting it. After a short investigation, I've then ended up reporting those posts a second time for plagiarism. Similarly, I've reported a post for plagiarism, and then gone back and reported it a second time after finding stronger evidence of plagiarism.
Disabling the "Report to moderator" function would prevent me (and others) from doing this, so I would prefer a "recall" function instead.
Maybe the button can be 'semi-disabled', ie it gives you a prompt like
you have already reported this, are you sure you want to report it again?.
If there's no cool down time, then this is also a good solution for those posts which are unhandled for more than a year. No need to bother the mods and often those posts are outdated so taking them off the queue would be good for the forum.
Maybe also an good thing would be that once or every half year unhandled reports would be canceld as nobody knows to deal with it,
and the most of them are not relevant anymore .
If so you can report it again in a better way when you report it .
Reports are pruned after a short while anyway. I don't know how long unhandled reports stay in the queue but I don't think it's more than a couple of months.