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In all honesty, I think that some people's idea of an "emergency" is very different from reality.
For example, a thread about Hitler appreciation lasting for several pages is not a "forum emergency," despite what anybody may think. So the thread lasts a few pages and a moderator bans the guy within 30 minutes instead of within 2. Who cares? Absolutely nothing will be affected if the thread is locked and its creator banned later rather than sooner, except that it might grow longer.
A "forum emergency" is really only when there is account theft, personal information being posted, or an imminent threat of IRL violence. And the fact is that I can't think of a single instance of a true emergency when the moderators were not notified within a few moments. Many regulars on these forums have access to several ninjas' instant messenger accounts and even some of our phone numbers. On the extremely rare occasions that a true forum emergency occurs, I have received text messages and phone calls within a few minutes telling me to get my butt onto BNet to deal with it. But I would be really pissed off if somebody used any kind of emergency notification method to report a Hitler thread.
A "911 thread" would work equally as well as the report queue or the moderators browsing the forums by themselves, that is to say, really fast or really slow depending on when a moderator happens to be looking.
Instead of trying to think of ways to notify the moderators faster about rulebreaking threads, try to remember that a thread that merely violates the forum rules is not a "forum emergency," and does not require immediate action. Report it, don't reply to it, and move on, and a moderator will take care of it soon.
[Edited on 03.15.2012 6:26 PM PDT]