GM Failure

[Niwashi]

The report button works, just not when you're reporting on someone else's behalf when they're perfectly capable of reporting themselves.

But the OP wasn't reporting on someone else's behalf. She was reporting on her own behalf. Whatever is said in a public channel is being said to everyone in that channel. You can't specify that only a specific person is allowed to react to it unless they're the only one it's sent to.

This was just a case of a GM taking the easy way out to avoid enforcing their own rules.