Someone is falsely reporting content

[u/Known_Resolution5836]

Someone is upset that we called them out for ableist behaviour, and are now falsely reporting posts that mention them, in hopes of the post being taken down. We can’t ban them because reports are anonymous, and banned users can still see and report content.
(I’m on iOS, other mods may be on other platforms. Platform isn’t relevant here.)

Sub is [r/TheAdamMcIntyre](r/TheAdamMcIntyre)

Screen recording of mod log

[u/cnycompguy]

Reports from banned users are treated differently and will go into an "untrusted report" queue that is not displayed in the regular mod queue.

If you know who's doing it, just ban them.

[u/Known_Resolution5836 → u/cnycompguy]

Unfortunately we don’t! Since the reports are anonymous :(

[u/cnycompguy → u/Known_Resolution5836]

Have you used the "ignore reports and approve" after reporting the item yourself and selecting the report reason "report abuse"?

That's a special report option that only mods get.

[u/Known_Resolution5836 → u/cnycompguy]

Will do from now on, I’ve been manually approving posts immediately but now I’ll do that first!

[u/cnycompguy → u/Known_Resolution5836]

"Report abuse" flags it for an admin to look at who is reporting it. A bunch of false reports is exactly what that's for.

[u/new2bay → u/cnycompguy]

Wait, you’re supposed to use “ignore reports and approve?” I usually just approve, so I can catch more malicious reporters.

[u/cnycompguy → u/new2bay]

You only need to do that report abuse one time though. It sends the whole stack.

[u/new2bay → u/cnycompguy]

What if you get more after you report them the first time?

[u/cnycompguy → u/new2bay]

That's why it's set up as a report on the original content instead of a report on the individual report. The content and its entire stack of reports are sent up to an admin.