Ever have users that reported everything?

[Grant]

Do you have any users who like to report on everything? Maybe they report a user for swearing in a post, or they report a double post that was by mistake. Maybe it's something dumb. Have you ever had a member who abused the report feature on your site?

 

[Ravenfreak]

Thankfully I haven't come across this on any of my communities. I can imagine that's got to be one of the most annoying things to deal with as a admin. Having dozens of reports on posts that don't even break any rules, needless to say if this does happen to me in the future I will immediately ban the user who is mass reporting posts for no reason.

 

[Cory]

I've rarely had the report system used on my current board in all of the 5+ years it has been open. But, my board isn't overly active and users mainly come to it for resources, support, and code requests. So, I can't say I have experienced this before. If they're overusing the report system where it almost seems like they're reporting silly stuff then they probably think they may have the ability to be a staff member of said forum due to their "contributions".

 

[Nomad]

Well, I never had a user who reported everything, however, on some forums where I was a staff, I had a user who reported almost everything. Poor guy was trying to impress the staff that he can be a good moderator on the site. Interestingly, the owner was not interested in hiring him.