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Ability to moderate users from their profile page #3137

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noahsscott opened this issue Jun 12, 2019 · 2 comments
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Ability to moderate users from their profile page #3137

noahsscott opened this issue Jun 12, 2019 · 2 comments
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area: moderation tooling, blocking, fighting spam or code of conduct abusers external contributors welcome contribution is welcome!

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@noahsscott
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
With the recent occurrence of spam (see issue #3091) it would be useful to have the ability to flag or ban users from their profile page. This would save time marking individual posts if an account is responsible for more than one spam-like post and/or is clearly a spam account.

Describe the solution you'd like
A button or icon to flag an account - visible to everyone, and another to ban - visible for moderators and above (depending on how people feel about moderators having this ability). Once marked, the user would choose a reason for why the account has been flagged or banned, with a field to provide further context for admins similar to the report page but perhaps wrapped in a modal? I can provide a mock-up if helpful.

Describe alternatives you've considered
None, as the described actions of flagging or banning users are common-place among online communities.

Additional context
After finding many spam posts on the latest feed I sent a list of the offending accounts to a dev.to admin, Michael, who pointed me to issue #3091 and the suggested improvements seem like they would prevent similar activity in the future. But in the case that spam accounts still get through it would save time if all users could flag accounts, and moderators could ban these accounts. I'm aware of the report page as I mentioned above, but having direct options of flagging or banning users from the profile page feels more appropriate given the actions that would be required anyway to moderate an account once it had started posting spam.

@michael-tharrington
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Just to point out that this issue here seems quite similar to this issue - #398. Sorry I didn't notice this when I was speaking with you previously @noahsscott!

@jessleenyc jessleenyc added the area: moderation tooling, blocking, fighting spam or code of conduct abusers label Aug 8, 2019
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I'm actually going to close this one in favor of the original issue since that one has some more detail on it. You can follow along here: #398

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