[Russell Sobie]

It takes me about 20 minutes post race to record enough clips from a replay to give the admins adequate information to give out suspensions or what have you. All it takes is autosaving replays, watching them right after a race (when you think there may be something to report), a properly set up installation of OBS, and a youtube account.

I don't protest every little thing either. I filter mostly on the following:

If they are obviously being a d-bag and do (or try to do) something unsportsman-like (ramming, bumping, retaliation contact, etc.), protest.
If they are trying to "win the race" by doing something boneheaded in the first couple of turns in a 20 minute plus race that causes one or more incidents, protest.
And a new one (based on a recent forum post about Ping), if they are blinking around the track due to a shoddy connection to the server and this results in taking someone (or multiple someones) out due to warping, protest.

I've also filed protests on others' behalf, since not everyone can turn around a protest video as fast as I can. In these cases it is a simple matter of "This didn't happen to me, but I don't want this person in races I'm in until they get their shit together."

I think the above is fair. I let everything else go. There are plenty of incidents I've encountered that upon review I figured was not worth protesting. I've also made newbie mistakes in races, and I make it a point to PM those involved to apologize. But if I do something really dumb and take someone out, I would hope that they would not tolerate it and file a protest.