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I don't have access to private messages*. So what I ask is that people share the entirety of a PM they wish to report with me. Then I can produce an MD5 hash of the content, and verify whether that PM exists between the 2 parties.
If I've seen both parties engage in threats then I'll come down on both parties, or ignore both parties (depends on whether a reasonable person would think it petty or seriously threatening). CLP was actually close to doing this recently when he started to try and claim others had harassed him... I didn't point out that his asking people to meet him was a more direct form of harassment in line with how the law views harassment (physical threat) than name calling on the internets.
sphinx sent 2 private messages that both separately could be verified, and both challenged greenhell to a fight.
To my knowledge lynx, you've not reported anything like this.
What you did report yesterday was a single post where your given reason was "Is this acceptable". The post in question did not form a physical threat but certainly was borderline and the person who posted it was asked to make it not be borderline... by either clarifying that it's their opinion (and not a statement of alleged fact), or by withdrawing the statement. The person involved did the former, which is acceptable.
The real problem is always that I can't please everyone, because all sides in a spat are behaving unreasonably and unreasonable people don't accept reasonable actions as the outcome.
*this isn't totally true given I've just written an export script to help migrate them to Microcosm: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/export-vbulletin