Ease of use for reporting on the site

[utaninja]

Hi,
This was inspired by https://www.mc-market.org/threads/556721/#post-4353187 + an old site I worked for

Reports look like this:

cool okay, so what?

Usually, I report one of the three things.
1. "1.6" "1.2.4" whatever, I just put the number it's violating
2. "20 minutes in-between ads" "google home mini's" "scripts" just posting what it's doing wrong
3. "insert long report here" This usually is for going into detail, explaining what's wrong. It's usually a more detailed and complicated report that has more than just violating a rule.

I suggest making this easier. If anyone's had warning privileges on a forum before, you are familiar with the usual warning point list.
This is a random photo I found as an example.

This could be just like reports. When reporting someone, either as a toggle option, a button you click to open or opens automatically (only on pc so mobile doesn't die?)
And you get a list of all the rules. It would make it much easier to report someone. Also easier for staff to sort through reports, be able to easily tell what the person is allegedly violating and overall cleans up the system.

You could also have another/custom option at the top, so you don't have to do this. I do not want this to be forced.

If you got more edits I'll add them below this. Also really happy to edit this, I think this would be helpful, easier on staff and overall simplified.

 

[utaninja]

This should be a forced thing because while it may not happen a lot, people report for things not against the rules such as inserting slurs or something.

Overall, it seems to make sense to have a dropdown menu inserting which rule (or rules) it violates because it would just be more organized.

There could be multiple choice just on the chance that a post violates more than one rule.

For users wanting to report someone for creating more than one account such as alting or ban evading, there should be an option to write so the reporter can write who they suspect that member to be.

That's an idea, I agree. Might take more work though depending on the level of detail.

It's like watchdog's report system.

Once selecting something, you get multiple options.

 

[Joshua C]

Given what the user is typing it should also re-direct to which rule it maybe violating.

 

[Geek]

Given what the user is typing it should also re-direct to which rule it maybe violating.

The only way I see this being applicable is breaking ad timer, but even then it would have to be with links. I don't think this is really feasible.

 

[Mick]

Typing in an explanation fo what rule was broken is just as easy as selecting from a list in my opinion. If we added every option there was for what could be reported the list would be so long that it'd take longer to look through all the options and click the right one than it'd be to type "1.6".

Denied, thanks for the suggestion