If you have answers to a post which you consider offensive and/or inappropriate and you report it, does 'someone' make a judgement about removing that post or is it done automatically?
It's not automatic. I assume the Ed looks at it and decides. When the Ed isn't around it may be that if a post is reported more than a set number of times it is removed- I don't know but that would make sense. It has been mentioned before that mods don't see the reports so aren't aware of them.
Of course if any mods are around they may see the post and can remove it