What happens when you report a post?

[CosyTeaBags]

I'm sure this has been asked 1000 times, but I can't find it so apologies for the probably boring question.

What happens when a post is reported and deleted? Does the poster get a message telling them why their post was deleted? And do you keep a tally of how many posts have been deleted from a particular poster?

I recently made my first 'report post' (for a personal attack - someone called me a cunt totally unnecessarily) and it was deleted. But now I almost regret reporting it, because it might have been better to allow the post to remain for everyone else to see what a cunt nasty person the poster was. If their post is deleted, then they almost get away with it...

However, if the poster got a telling off and a mark on their card, then it was worth it.

So, as I'm obviously angelic and have never had any of my own posts reported - can I ask are there any feisty buggers who break the rules out there who can tell me how it works?

I'm not that feisty and rulebreaking - yes you eventually get an email from mnhq. No clue whether the person whose post was deleted gets any message, afaik they don't, they just see the "post deleted"bit
hoping some naughtier / more feisty buggers come along in a bit

(sorry but still laughing at "called me a cunt totally unnecessarily"... like when would it be necessary )

oh I don't know, the word Cunt gets thrown about a lot on MN... but I was being decidedly un-cunty I promise!

Im sure MN have a spreadsheet :)

You don't get told your post has been deleted. And the reporter gets an email to tell them mnhq's response to what you report.

Hmm I didn't get an email to tell me MNHQs response - but I did see that the post was deleted.

I just wanted the poster to get a slap on the wrist - so is it possible that they may not even be aware that they've had a post deleted?

The email can take a while. But no the poster won't know, IME. I only found my deletion by searching my own user name following a similar conversation.

Hmm in that case, there are no repercussions for the poster - so I should really have left the offending post there, so that everyone else could see what she had written (since it was a PA and therefore wouldn't upset anyone else).

Good to know, although I hope I won't need to do it again!

I was hoping MNHQ was like a stern headmistress:

"Now XXXX, it really isn't nice to call people a Cunt for no reason. Don't do it again!"

Hello there

This is a how-long-is-a-piece of string question really.

As people have said, we don't generally mail people to say that their post has been deleted.

BUT if a poster keeps having posts reported, or if we think an individual post is really OTT and nasty, we will contact the poster to say 'erm, could you have a think about your tone please? ersonal attacks [or whatever the infraction was] are against our Guidelines'.

If we've had to send more than one or two of these sorts of emails to the same poster, we may well suspend their ability to post while we talk to them about what's going on.

In some cases the suspension becomes permanent if we don't think the poster is willing to abide by the Guidelines.

In the case of the post you reported Cosy, as it happens, further action was taken. Hope that means you'll carry on reporting? Please? It's the only way we get to see that people are breaking the rules (if they are).

Thank you Rowan,

I hadn't thought of the other side of the coin - i.e. that MNHQ need to know when people are breaking the rules. So yes, that's a good reason to keep reporting.