I think people who announce that they've reported are insecure and immature, so desperate for some kind of validation that not only do they appeal to a higher power that justice be served, but that everyone else be aware of their righteousness and support them in it.
It's particularly loathesome when the person doing the reporting was in a debate that became heated, and their reason for reporting was not so much an outcry against someone being inflammatory or breaking the rules, but because they personally were offended or (more likely) losing.
It's particularly loathesome when the person doing the reporting was in a debate that became heated, and their reason for reporting was not so much an outcry against someone being inflammatory or breaking the rules, but because they personally were offended or (more likely) losing.