The burden of responsibility is not on the viewer to maintain and inform those violating the laws of their error.

Also, what you're suggesting can get people reported for impersonating a moderator on here. Ask me how I know.
You either report someone and wait sometimes uo to two years for a response, with the moderator citing this as a "volunteer position " as an excuse, or you get nothing at times.

Still; better to report and move on.

Nah. If the viewer can bear the responsibility of reporting, they can bear the same responsibility of reaching out directly to a potential policy violator to give them a heads up. It’s a courtesy. Not an impersonation.

If it's a courtesy, then it's not an obligation or requirement.
You'd like to think that it isn't, but I've been reported before for precisely what you're asking.
So I'd like to think I know what I'm talking about.

"If the viewer can bear the responsibility of reporting"
That's like saying
"If the person sees someone getting mugged, and they try to help, they can bear the responsibility of trying to explain to the mugger why what they're doing is wrong instead of calling the police."

Mmm… I don’t feel like that’s an analogous argument. Straw man fallacy, actually. No one is in physical danger or at risk of being mugged here on FA. If someone is being threatened, harassed, or bullied - then yes, obviously report.

What I’m saying: if you come across someone’s content that seems to violate the site’s terms and conditions, it’s courteous and the more honorable path to reach out to that user directly and say, “Hey, just FYI…”. If that user doesn’t bother to change their content, and if it’s still that important to you, then sure, you can report them. But most of the time, violations of site policy are an accident or an oversight. I think people would appreciate a kind, neighborly heads up rather than FA pulling their content, issuing warnings, and citing vague and unclear reasons why the user’s content violated a site policy.

Fair, I equate it to the same thing because it feels like it holds a similar basis, though it did feel a bit reaching. That's on me.

I've done that before (Hey, just FYI), and that's fair. I don't do it all the time, though. There's been way too much pushback on it, so that option is off the table for me. Neither result has provided a satisfactory solution, but depending on the impulse and mood, that can change.

I just don't report things even if i do see a violation. I leave those things for the admins to find.

Do you post the content anywhere else? I think this the people here are too retarded to depend on their goodwill and understanding.

Most people who report seem to do it because they just have political or religious beliefs that conflict with thep porn they enjoy, so, rather than be responsible for their own decisions they just try to remove the temptation. Not by having any personal responsibility, but by trying to ban the porn lol

I’m sure that’s a big part of it. In this case, however, I had a story that was yanked due to a violation of the site’s policy on AI use. I had created some cover art for the story that featured an element of AI, and FA claimed that ANY deep-learning AI was absolutely, unequivocally, forbidden. Which I took issue with, seeing as the file and art-in-question was my story, written and conceived wholly by me, sans AI. I simply wanted my story to be formatted in a way that made it look nice and intentionally presented, so I created some cover art for it, which was embedded within the document. Someone reported it, I guess? And FA pulled the story because of it. I argued with FA’s moderators, claiming that the file upload was that of a “story,” and not “art.” I wasn’t attempting to pass anything off art. The cover art was purely additional. Still, FA cited their broad and overly one-size-fits-all policy, so no more story