Report Abuse Idea and Comment

Path: Community Settings >> Workflow >> Automation Builder >> Abuse Notification

Report Abuse option helps in detecting and reporting any sort of abusive, inappropriate language into the idea in the community.
Only admin and standard user of the community can flag idea as Abusive submitted by the community members itself.

This section falls under Advanced settings.

This section falls under Basic settings.

Path: Community Settings >> Customization >> Customize Site Behavior >> Idea Submission Settings >> Allow Idea Report Abuse or Report Duplicate

 

Setup Report Abuse

Action

How to Mark Idea as Report Abuse

How to Report Abuse Comment

Setting up Report Abuse Notification:

The administrator of the community can set up the Abuse notification by these following requirements-

1. Click on the Abuse Notification >> Edit

2. Select the Condition 'Idea'

3. Enter the number of times the idea has to be marked as ‘Abuse’ for Abuse threshold

4. After reaching on the threshold value, an idea would follow the behavior which has been set in the 'Action'

5. Actions can be triggered for:

• Mark Abuse

• Change Status

• Notify Members: All members or Members assigned to specific Group.

6. Click on Enabled.

Action:

Report Abuse notification can be set up by following few actions.

1. Mark Abuse

2. Change Status

3. Notify Member

Mark Abuse:
If the action set as Mark Abuse-

After reaching the threshold value, the idea would be moved into the incoming moderation dashboard for moderator approval. For this action, the idea will be marked as 'Abuse' after approval by the moderator.

Change Status:
If the action is set as Change Status-

After reaching the threshold value, idea stage will be changed which has been selected in the action.

Notify Member:

If the action set as Notify Member-

After reaching on the threshold value, a group of people will be notified that idea has been met 'Abuse Notification' rule.

 

Mark Idea as Report Abuse:

1. Click on the Report Abuse link on the idea.

2. In Grid View and List View the Report Abuse link will be displayed in the three dots button which is meant for more actions.

Grid View:

List View:

3. As soon as someone reports an idea and the threshold is met the idea will move into Pending Approval state with the message- 'You have reported this idea as being inappropriate. It will be removed when enough people flag it'.

4. The idea submitter will receive an email notification of 'Mark Abused' as shown in the below screenshot.

 

5. After clicking on the link from an email, it redirects the idea submitter to the idea details page and sees it’s in the pending approval stage for awaiting moderator approval.

Please Note:

1. Only Admin and Standard User will see the Report Abuse link in the idea.

2. Admin can not report abuse to another admin's ideas.

3. Moderators will not see the Report Abuse links to perform this action.

4. Any idea which gets submitted is live and is in Ideate Stage will show 'Report Abuse' links, however, any idea moved from the Pending Approval stage by a moderator or any idea moved from any different stage to the Ideate stage will not show these links.

5. Report Abuse link will be available only for ideas in the Ideate Stage.

6. The Idea submitter, idea owner and moderator receives an email notification when an idea is labeled as Abuse.

Report Abuse Comment

Report abuse comment link helps in detecting and reporting any sort of abusive, inappropriate comment on a specific idea in the community.

1. If a standard user posts a comment, only then Report Abuse label is visible to other standard users on the comment as shown in the below screenshot.

2. Any Standard User reports a comment as abusive will move into the Pending Approval stage as shown in the below screenshot.

3. The moderator will receive email notification for Comment Flagged.

4. Moderator can approve the flagged comments from the Incoming Moderation Dashboard.

5. After approving the comment by the moderator, the comment will be published with a label as "Reported".

 

Report Duplicate Ideas

How to manage Duplicate and Abuse Ideas