Did you read the original post? If so, how did you miss the "WEAPONS TESTING", indeed, Combat (sandbox) Rausch is another area for noobs and non-combat pacifist types to keep away from. Raush is a shoot on site, don't ask questions, you can kill here type of place -- for those who like such things.
The real problem is the reporters themselves, if they can't "beat" their target, if they can't "win", they attempt to use a linden report as another of their weapons, to defeat their targets/would-be-victims. You see this all the time in "Sandbox - weapons (no damag", "Combat (sandbox) - Red Team's HQ", "Combat (sandbox) - Blue Team's HQ", "Combat (sandbox) Rausch", "Combat Core", etc., etc.
If you are in doubt, when you can, visit the areas, learn the ropes, learn to stay alive and watch the lamers who attempt to control the sandboxes though manipulating the lindens -- it soon will appear to you that the only ones not realizing they are being manipulated is the lindens! You would think after months, years, a decade, etc. they (lindens) would finally figure this out and start banning the abusers who take control of the sandboxes with their gangs and attempt to keep those out who don't slave theirselves to them ... but then ...