Why is the post/comment/member I reported still on the site?
Reports of abuse are reviewed by the community admins and by HealthUnlocked, who will evaluate if the Community Guidelines have been breached, and then decide if any action needs to be taken straight away. If you don’t see any change within 48 hours, it is probably because there is not enough evidence for any action to be taken.
Here are some examples where reports did not result in actions:
Reported for Offensive and threatening language
Case: Post/comment with personal/general outburst and frustration that uses borderline swear words such as crap, bloody, pissed.
Why not remove the content? There's often a lot of grey area in an online community and interpretation of what is (or is not) abusive/aggressive can be subjective. In those cases, it's down to each community admin to decide what can stay and what should go.
Reported for Spam
Case: Post/comment with links to products/services from a regular member of the community that has contributed normally before.
Why not remove the link or ban the member? Sometimes genuine members share external links. In those cases, many admins allow links to stay, as long as they are not repetitive about it (share the same the link more than 1 out of every 10 contributions, for example).