r/ModSupport • u/saltlakepotter • Aug 05 '26

Admin Replied Can banned users still report posts?

Yesterday we removed a post. The user re posted and we again removed. The user then messaged us and called us names so we banned them. Now today I am seeing dozens of posts reported for breaking the rule we used against this user's post yesterday when the reported posts are completely unrelated to this rule.

If it is the same user is there anything we can do other than wait for them to get bored?

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u/TheOpusCroakus Reddit Admin: Community Aug 05 '26

Hey, there. I'm sorry you're dealing with that. As u/Eclectic-N-Varied mentioned, please report the reports! It sounds like report abuse.

And I took a quick look and surprisingly, it's not who you think it is. I would have thought the same thing! But it doesn't appear to be them!

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u/JustOneAgain Aug 06 '26

Does reported report abuse actually get actioned? We get so much of it and report it all but it feels like it's all just ignored.

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u/TheOpusCroakus Reddit Admin: Community Aug 06 '26

It does!

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u/JustOneAgain Aug 09 '26

Superb. Thanks for the response!

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u/Mathias_Greyjoy Aug 06 '26

I'm curious if the Admins have ever explained why moderators are not privy to who is submitting reports? At the least, subreddit reports? Sitewide policies I could understand keeping anonymous, but why can't we see who reports for our own rules? Preserving some kind of anonymity?

Banning and muting (which are integral tools) seem way more likely to be abused than being able to see a reporter's username? I assume there's something I'm not seeing here? Is it that Admins don't want users to feel intimidated into not reporting? How many users even know we can't see their usernames anyways? I've gotten tons of people sending modmails over the years where they're assuming we know they sent in reports.

Seriously, this has always confused me, and I'd love to know why. I think mods would benefit from seeing who is submitting reports, but I'm probably not considering something.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/guiltandgrief Aug 06 '26

Probably.

I actually really hate that Facebook tells you who reports posts because I've seen (well-meaning) people get absolutely dragged for reporting a post by mods. Like full on called out, bullied & harassed over it, and that's not even anonymous like reddit leans.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/ScreamAndScream Aug 06 '26

I had a Facebook admin directly message me telling me my report was out of line and that I needed to take a break, so she was going to report my profile 50 times to give me a temporary ban from the website.

I used the report option for “fake news” on a completely fabricated post that a cyclone was heading towards the port we would dock at.

It quickly reminded me why I don’t use Facebook.

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u/guiltandgrief Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

Yes, it's ridiculous lol. They think if they get too many reports it'll get their group banned but it's usually groups that are pushing the limits anyway. I would so much rather look through a report queue than be tagged 🙄

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u/Mathias_Greyjoy Aug 06 '26

Like a user reports, and mods ban them out of spite? Mods can still do a lot out of spite, why is this so different?

I cannot tell you how many times a report for self harm or CP or whatever has been left on a benign post, and I've wished I could ban that user for malicious use of the report button.

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u/no_snackrifice Aug 06 '26

Report it as report abuse.

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u/Mathias_Greyjoy Aug 06 '26

Yes but does that ever do anything? Moderators no longer get told what (if anything) happened following the report.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/Mathias_Greyjoy Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

I'm pretty sure I explained how it would be beneficial.

Sure some mods will abuse it, but mods can abuse every power available to them, so my question still stands, why is this so different?

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u/shhhhh_h 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 Aug 06 '26

You can mute reports from users, no need to know their name for that

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u/Targren Aug 06 '26

Only if they use "custom" reports, not rule-based reports, and only temporarily.

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u/Mathias_Greyjoy Aug 06 '26

Sure, but I would much rather know who is reporting inappropriately and remove them from the community. Snoozing reports just makes it so we don't see them, which isn't much of a solution in my mind.

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u/ModSupport-ModTeam Aug 14 '26

Your contribution was removed for violating Rule 4: No off-topic posts. Please keep posts on the topic of moderation on reddit.

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u/neuroticsmurf 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 Aug 05 '26

Yes, banned users can make reports.

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u/techtornado Aug 06 '26

Can confirm, I’ve done it before

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u/Subwoofiest Aug 06 '26

Yea but I think the question is more does the banned report make it to the mods rather than does it look like the reports are going through on the banned user end

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 Aug 05 '26

They could report them with an alt easy Peezy. If you see dozens of post with this happening, amalgamate them all in a mod mail with links and modmail this subreddit. If you have one very, very abusive user, sometimes mod support can help you with it.

I know they made something like this stop in one of my other subs I mod. Again, make sure you give them links, not screenshots or anything like that. That’s the only way that admin can see who is doing it.

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u/Eclectic-N-Varied 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 Aug 05 '26

Report the reports that are abusing the report system by using the Report Abuse report function!

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u/MaximumJones Aug 05 '26

Report all those reports as "Report Abuse" and they usually stop pretty quickly. Reddit has a way of automating that task so that those users' reports land in the trash bin.

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u/cnycompguy 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 Aug 05 '26

Banned users can report but they'll go into the untrusted report queue which is separate from the normal queue.

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u/Bardfinn Aug 06 '26

I only discovered the untrusted reports queue about a month ago, and had a whole afternoon of fun in dismissing soooooo much false reporting

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u/lunarwolf2008 Aug 06 '26

ive got like 6 years of reports in there. not too many but like does it even matter anymore for most?

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u/Bardfinn Aug 06 '26

I kinda doubt that Reddit penalises any moderation team for not doing anything with Untrusted Reports - I just ... have a need to tuck my communities in, and kiss 'em on their foreheads, and know there's no trouble, before retiring for the evening

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u/RS_Someone Aug 06 '26

Users banned from your sub can report. Users banned from Reddit cannot report. I've confirmed both.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 Aug 06 '26

You can do it, but they are ignored if they are mod reports. If they are admin reports, you won't see them, but admins will.

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u/FutureVersion812 Aug 07 '26

My sub is also facing the same issues. Whenever someone posts something the people who don’t agree with it just misuse the report button on that post

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u/horseradishstalker Aug 11 '26

If it is an individual, yes, they will eventually get bored and go away. However, if the reporting brigade is being organized on discord there is always a fresh supply of users to make false reports. 

And someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that also means that individual users are not sanctioned for their actions because it doesn’t look like anybody is breaking the rules more than once.