Topic: PSA: How to report bad behavior

Reporting Posts / Flagging Posts for Deletion

There are two options to report posts, both with different mindsets. If you believe the post itself is bad and might require deletion you will want to flag it for deletion. If the post is the source of abuse but is otherwise fine you will want to report it.

To report a post simply click "Report" on the left side of the image (located under "Options"). Once the new page opens the fitting reason, then give us some more information to help us see what you're seeing.

To flag a post for deletion click "Flag for Deletion" instead, also located under "Options" on the left side of the image.

Please note that the reasons available are carefully selected. If the reason you'd like to report/flag the post for is not listed in either of the two tools consider reporting the user itself instead (see below on how to do that). There might also some more common reasons you shouldn't flag/report a post for, you can find those reasons below as well.

Good reasons to report for:

  • The description is insulting
  • The description has been edited to be nonsensical
  • The image contains a virus/malware
  • The source links to a virus/malware
  • The notes are being used for something bad
    • Notes are generally for translations into English and to denote characters in images with many characters. If you see notes used for other things chances are it's worth reporting them.
  • Someone is repeatedly adding bad tags / removing good tags / using the tags to insult someone

Good reasons to flag for:

  • There is a better version of this post on e621
    • Flag it for inferior / duplicate version of the better version (add the better version's post ID into the field)
  • The file is corrupt / can't be displayed
  • The image is DNP / Paid content
  • The image is a trace of another image
  • The image has been deleted before
  • The image contains real life pornography / real life nudity

What not to flag / report for:

  • posts that are low quality
  • posts that are irrelevant to our page (human only, photographs of things that aren't traditional art, etc)
    • Both of those are not worth to be reported because our moderation team will look at those images sooner or later. Please let us deal with the moderation queue at our own leisure, the reporting tools are only for things that are more urgent and can't wait
      • Things that can't wait are, for example, RL porn, DNP content, paid content, images containing viruses. All of those are valid report / FFD reasons.
  • posts that offend you
    • if content inside an image itself offends you please just blacklist it instead
  • posts you own that you wish to have deleted from e621
    • Are you the character owner, commissioner, or artist of something and want it deleted? You must Takedown request instead!

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