Feedback: Reported indicator should be shown consistently and not error

Question

Whenever I report a post then sometimes it shows the yellow "reported" indicator after it is reported and sometimes it doesn't. This should be consistently shown.

Related to this, if someone else reports a post and I open it then it isn't clear that it has been reported either. If someone else reports a post then the indicator should be present.

The impact of this is that if you go to report a post and it has already been reported, whether by you or someone else, then after you select the report option and fill out the information then it fails with a generic error. At this point you have to cancel the report feature. This is wasteful of our time. Ideally if the post has already been reported and someone reports it again then just silently ignore it and mark it as reported anyway. There is no reason to tell us that you already have a post reported if we report it again since it doesn't really do anything. Showing the indicator consistently would reduce the likelihood of this happening at all.

Answer 1

Hi Michael,

Thank you for this feedback, it's been shared with the team.