I may only be 17, and in my 17 years of life I'm sure I've not experienced half of what you have. NCMEC and the Cyber Tipline has been my go-to for years because they actually attempt to contact the website owners to gather substantial evidence before reporting to authorities in the jurisdiction of the site or predator.
I respect you Universal, but "Mods/Admins aren't the only ones that can report to law enforcement" is kinda insane for you to say. As ********, it's our responsibility to keep ourselves safe? Instead of, what, the mods and admins that volunteer? I get we have to have some sense of responsibility because it's the internet and anyone can be anyone, but when half of a chat has reasonable suspicion that someone is a pedophile the site admins and moderators (most of which agree they're a pedophile, btw) it still isn't the moderators/admins responsibility to do something?
I've had a really crappy day, so maybe I'm just taking it out on you, and I apologize, but for the love of God it's asinine to say what you just said. Astro had what is clearly a traumatizing experience and y'all are just passing the blame to us? And then trying to get the thread closed before the admin has commented when a reasonable question to him has been asked? Cmon man, I've known you as better than this.
That's it, I've said my peace, I'm going to log off before I say something that'll get me banned off forums.