I feel like when reports don't work, you should simply contact a mod in private and let them know how you feel about certain situations. It worked for me a few times. Certain mods are more tolerant of things and they won't do anything about reports while other mods will hear you out and if you have a legit case they will look into it. Talk to Cone or Smeags, both are reasonable mods. Just some advice for a fellow user.

This is not work, or school. Is it?

Oh, it does make a big difference. There are people that are polarizing often. If you are tired with that, put them on ignore. That unstresses your nerves. It is not automatically easy to avoid threads from said user on your own and nearly impossible to ignore posts in other threads.

It works wonders for me on websites that have that feature.

You're absolutely right.  Just thinking back to the "everyone wins" mentality also messes people up when they get older.  They have trouble excepting losses, or putting fourth their all.  Put on top of that, blocking people they don't like, makes for some tissue-soft skin.  Anyone taking offense to this specific post I'm writing now, is the perfect example.  But, just go about your day, it's your first step to bettering yourself.

I don't think that anyone is taking offense to your post. You post does seem awfully closed-minded. Not everyone has a brain that works exactly like yours. Not everyone has emotions that work exactly like yours. Your suggestion is fine, but other people have other suggestions, and they are no less valid than your own.

Pretty much this, the whole "grow thicker skin" jargon doesn't apply to everyone and nor should it, if it were then Scotsmen would own everyone in the world who can't "man up" and log toss with a single arm because that's where grow thicker skin goes towards.

I also expected the blatant use of "I'm trying my best to offend you and that's fine but just ignore me which proves my point", which is to go along the very so thin line of baiting others and dodging any form of criticism and the thought of perfect logic (protip: it's not).

See the problem with the "grow thicker skin" camp is that they see their side as the logically perfect and undienbly right side that also happens to not look into any other side but their own and anyone who isn't on their side needs to grow a pair, that's probably the worst aspect of that camp and it still perpetuates to this day even though they are quite illogical while also not understanding how the human mind let alone the rest of humanity works, it's better for them to care about a very small few that think just like they do than to open their mind to others, which in turn is very close and simple minded if not ignorant at best.

The likelihood is, that the stuff you're finding annoying or offensive but marginally within the rules, is being posted to get a reaction. By not giving a reaction, you're not giving these people what they want.

Sometimes, the best response is no response - because sometimes not getting a response can be just as aggravating to someone as their post is to you. It's not about how your brain works, it's learning and knowing how to deal with people.

I actually created a thread about this not that long ago. Oh well. I think that a block feature would be great for the forums. It would allow thread creators to self-moderate their own threads and cut down sharply the amount of reports the mods get and ultimately stop the majority of permabans or lengthy bans altogether. It would be nice if ioi added it to the forums.

on ign it's incredibly useful to just block and forget the few users that keep bugging me in repetitive ways or continuously trolling.

Want.

And what better way to not even be tempted to respond than to not even see the post of someone who constantly posts things that offend/upset/anger you?