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Report this User Button/Link

Updated: 17 Jul 2009 | 4 comments
TheSmiz's picture
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I personally feel it would be beneficial to have a "Report this User" button or link that would notify the correct individuals about a particular user.

Connect is a place for people to help one another and benefit from the knowledge of those in the same type of profession, using the same technologies.  When people post comments that tear others down or act like that person is an idiot, they should get reported and either get a notification saying someone reported their post or have a point system to block their account when max points have been reached.  Points could be removed after a time limit.  Something like the first point will be removed after 30 days of no more reports.  If you get reported another time before that point is taken off, you have 2points and now are waiting 60 days for the initial point to be taken away.

I think this would also be helpful in finding and nabbing the individuals that are simply coming onto connect and posting nonsense for points.  I can see this happening more and more now and it it would be nice to be able to report them without having to PM someone.  While getting reward points is nice, it is not the main focus of connect and I think most of the connect family feels this same way and are here to help.

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KSchroeder's picture
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Agreed.

I agree.   On a slightly different note, currently the initial post on a thread is the only one which has a "Mark as Offensive" link (at least I can see it as a TA).  It would be nice if as per TheSmiz's suggestion individual posts could also be flagged.  Of course this would probably lead to plenty of additional work from the Admins and possibly TAs...but it might help to cull out the users trying to game the system (still)!

Thanks,
Kyle
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 Thanks for catching this,

 Thanks for catching this, all posts (and comments) have a "flag as inappropriate" option - it must be a bug that it's not showing up for all community members.  I'll look into this.

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2009
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Peter, I can't see option to

Peter,
I can't see option to report your above post as "flag as inappropriate". Just kidding, I am not able to see for any post.

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good post, I agree with you.

good post, I agree with you.