Flagging & Reporting
Design Pattern
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SubscribeProblem summary
The user wants to mark inappropriate content for moderation
Example
Usage
- Use when your site is based on user generated content where you can’t possible moderate everything yourself because of the vast number of updates.
In the card deck
Flagging & Reporting is one of the cards in the UI Patterns card deck
A collection of 60 User Interface design patterns, presented in a manner easily referenced and used as a brainstorming tool.
Solution
Let users report content for moderation
Rationale
For sites based on user-generated content and user interaction, flagging and reporting is a vital design pattern. Let users help discover content necessary for administrators to review for removal or categorization. Users are most often happy to help with the overwhelming task of surveilling and managing user-generated content produced in a community.
