Hi sue and Dee,
It takes 3 report(er)s to pull a thread or Q. It has to be 3 separate usernames (1 person cannot submit 3 times). An e-mail sent to the AB ED to remove a Q or A can have an effect if reporting alone doesn't ban it. Sometimes a post gets removed for no ryme or reason - at least not an obvious one! If there is a subliminal thread i.e. racial or abusive - then it can be pulled or censored by AB techs. One case in hand, an ABer mispelt a word (innocently), and within the long word was what could have been a nasty racist jibe (!!), so it was removed!
There are, unfortunately, some pathetic creatures out there that take it upon themselves to report unoffensive material, just for the sheer hell of it, possibly through envy of the ABer posting, because of that person's popularity, or even because said ABer replied with a witty retort that the receiver didn't (being humourless) appreciate! They are to be pittied though, especially if they have had a humour bypass operation.
n00dles xXx