Reporting

If something on the site breaks the rules, report it. The report button is on the thing itself rather than in a central form, so a report always arrives attached to what it is about.

What can be reported

Content items — mods, assets, servers, communities, groups, articles — and also:

What a report carries

typeSPAM | OTHERdefault OTHER

A coarse classification. Deliberately coarse — a long list of categories produces reports filed under the wrong one.

titlestringrequired

A one-line summary.

contentmarkdownrequired

What is wrong, in your own words. This is the part that matters.

mediarelation

Screenshots. A report takes a gallery like a content item does, so “here is what I saw” does not have to be described in prose.

Reporting a chat message

A report against a chat message carries no copy of the text.

Moderators read the message through the moderation chat view, which decrypts and audits the access. That way reporting a message never creates a second plaintext copy of it in the database.

What happens next

The report is queued for moderators. It carries a comment thread, which is the conversation between you and staff — that is how you get asked for detail, and how you are told the outcome.

A report is resolved when staff close it. Your own reports and their state are listed under Account → Reports.

Reporting is gated by penalties

A member under a full penalty cannot file reports, along with every other reaction. A limited penalty leaves reporting available.