Reporting helps members raise a rule concern without having to decide the outcome themselves. A report is a private request for review, not a public accusation and not an automatic verdict against the content or its author.

When Reporting Is The Right Choice

Use reporting when a post or article appears to break rules that protect people, communities, and shared work. That can include concerns about safety, harassment, privacy, copyright, illegal material, spam, deception, or conduct that conflicts with the current space's expectations.

Reporting is most useful when there is a specific rule concern. A difference of opinion, an unpopular position, or content you simply do not enjoy does not by itself mean that a rule was broken.

The report asks an authorized reviewer to examine the concern in context. Reviewers make the decision after submission, so sending a report does not automatically hide the item, remove it, or penalize its author.

Where The Report Action Appears

Current member-facing reporting starts from the content itself:

These entry points open the same report form. Post reporting has the complete in-space review journey, including review with the surrounding post context. Article reporting is available from the article menu, but its follow-up experience should not be assumed to match every part of the post-review journey.

The loaded article menu exposes Report before any rule, note, or submission screen is opened.

Other content surfaces are not covered by this reporting flow. Do not expect the same action on live messages, comments, files, profiles, or private messages.

Choose The Rule Context

The form asks you to select one rule before the Report button becomes available. Your choice tells reviewers what kind of concern to assess and prevents a report from arriving without a reason.

Choose between two kinds of rule context:

Selecting a rule shows its description. If you are unsure, use the links in the form to review the platform rules and the current space's rules before submitting.

Add Useful Context

The User Note is optional. Use it when the selected rule alone would not show a reviewer what to look for—for example, when the concern depends on phrasing, surrounding discussion, or details that are easy to miss.

A helpful note is brief and factual. Point to the relevant part of the content and explain why it may break the selected rule. Avoid speculation about the author's motives or unrelated personal information. Leaving the note empty does not prevent submission once a rule is selected.

Feedback And Privacy

The report form closes after you submit it while Visual Space sends the request. A successful request produces the confirmation Report submitted; if the request fails, Visual Space shows an error instead.

Ordinary members do not see a public report marker on the content. Another member who encounters the same item can still submit their own concern. This keeps reporting out of the public conversation while allowing reviewers to understand when several people independently flag the same post.

Your optional note is part of the review context. Write it for the people responsible for assessing the concern, not as a reply to the author or a message to the wider space.

What Happens Next

For a reported post, authorized reviewers can examine the selected rule, your note, and the post together. They may decide that the report has been reviewed without removing the post, remove the post, or treat it as spam. This judgment belongs to the review process; the number of reports alone does not prove that content broke a rule.

The member-facing confirmation means that Visual Space accepted the report. It does not promise a particular decision or an immediate visible change. Because reports are handled privately, you may not see a status update on the post after submitting.

For the complete action sequence, follow Report a Post or Article. The broader Reports overview explains how member reporting and space review fit together. Authorized reviewers can read Review Reports in a Space for the verified post-review workflow.

Common Questions

Does a report remove content immediately?

No. It asks for review. An authorized reviewer decides what should happen after considering the rule, note, and content context.

Can other members see that I reported something?

Ordinary members do not receive a public marker showing that you submitted a report. The report is handled through the review workflow.

Do I have to write a note?

No. The note is optional, but it can help when the rule choice does not fully explain the concern.

Which rules should I choose?

Choose a Visual Space rule for a platform-wide concern. Choose the current space's rules when the concern is about that community's local expectations.

Can several people report the same post?

Yes. Each member can submit a concern, and reviewers can consider multiple reports about the same post together. Several reports still do not create an automatic verdict.

Can I report messages, comments, files, profiles, or private messages this way?

No complete member flow is documented for those surfaces. Use Report only where the supported post or loaded-article menu offers it.