Topic: PSA: How to report bad behavior

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good-taste

Member

notmenotyou said:

Reporting bad tagging

Found someone who is constantly removing valid tags, or adding invalid tags to images, or is constantly changing tags on the same image for no rhyme or reason?

If the tagging abuse is contained within a single image (or only a few images) report the image for the reason "Tagging Abuse" and explain what they're doing on the image. If they're doing that on more than one image be sure to link the other images in the reason as well.

If the tagging abuse is spread over many images report the user directly instead. To do so open the user's profile page and click "Report User". On the newly opening page give us as much information on what they're doing, and where, as you can so we can find the abuse.

Please note that it's also against the rules to upload images with less than 4 valid tags. If you find someone uploading something with less than 4 valid tags please report them!

Good things to report:

  • someone repeatedly removing valid tags, or adding invalid tags
  • different people repeatedly changing tag around on a single post (we call this a tag war)
  • someone removing all tags from any image
    • this is a very bad thing to do and worth reporting any time you see it
  • someone using tags to insult or call out another person
  • A user is not uploading their art with 4 valid tags or more
  • A user is incorrectly setting the rating on an image

Things to not report:

  • singular mistags
    • if someone mistagged something once we generally handwave it, everyone makes mistakes sometimes after all
  • typos
    • eveyrone maks tyopes
  • not tagging something
    • not tagging something is not against the rules, only removing valid tags or adding the wrong tags is against the rules

Further Reading:

Hello this is good-taste, just came off of a 12-month ban!

The reason I was banned was for alleged "tag vandalism," and I try to dispute it but the moderator insisted that it was the culprit, either me "using a program or moving really fast" making unnecessary changes to tags on other people's posts.
I still refute that those actions were mine, because I asked for some examples of posts that were allegedly tampered with under my account, and none of the posts provided were relevant due to them being so recent at the time and unfamiliar to me.
I just want to let you know that I have logged in and from this point forward I will consistently log out to make sure there isn't any tampering with my account without me actually being logged in. The longest time ,pre-ban, I have left my account logged in for long durations, so I suspect that there may have been some compromise with my account since I basically left the door open to begin with. So if anything sketchy happens while my ban is dropped starting today, please inform me.

I don't know if there is an actual issue with my account being compromised or if there was just a case of moderator abuse. All I can say is we'll see what happens later.

OozeEnthusiast

Member

good-taste said:
Hello this is good-taste, just came off of a 12-month ban!

The reason I was banned was for alleged "tag vandalism," and I try to dispute it but the moderator insisted that it was the culprit, either me "using a program or moving really fast" making unnecessary changes to tags on other people's posts.
I still refute that those actions were mine, because I asked for some examples of posts that were allegedly tampered with under my account, and none of the posts provided were relevant due to them being so recent at the time and unfamiliar to me.
I just want to let you know that I have logged in and from this point forward I will consistently log out to make sure there isn't any tampering with my account without me actually being logged in. The longest time ,pre-ban, I have left my account logged in for long durations, so I suspect that there may have been some compromise with my account since I basically left the door open to begin with. So if anything sketchy happens while my ban is dropped starting today, please inform me.

I don't know if there is an actual issue with my account being compromised or if there was just a case of moderator abuse. All I can say is we'll see what happens later.

I wish I could do more to help, but if you're worried about getting banned again, you can check a record of tagging changes made with your account by going to your profile and clicking post changes. https://e621.net/post_versions?lr=170433&search%5Bupdater_id%5D=170433
I'd keep an eye on that page until you're sure your account is secure. If you haven't already, make sure to change your password and any other accounts you have that use the same password.

Watsit

Privileged

good-taste said:
I don't know if there is an actual issue with my account being compromised or if there was just a case of moderator abuse. All I can say is we'll see what happens later.

Well, there is a large number of bad tag edits done by your account before you got banned. Though I must say, I don't think all of them were wrong (at the very least the change you did to post #197112 looked correct, as that's not a herm since there's no visible pussy as required for it, and it's not gynomorph since there's no required breasts, so it does look like a male, with an unusual penis placement as tagged). But in either case, it wasn't just a moderator saying you did all those other bad tag edits. Either you did do them, or your account was compromised, and in either case you're responsible for what happens under your account. If you haven't yet, I would suggest making sure your email is correct and changing your password.

toxi-wuff

Member

How does one report an instance of faulty tagging or tag-locking across multiple related images/posts, on a single ticket? Cinder-bot states that apparently it's possible (and heavily preferred to individual tickets, for obvious reasons!) but either I'm figuratively blind (very likely) or the option doesn't actually exist (less, but still significantly, likely).

EDIT: And in the latter case, how would one report such an instance of mis-tagging in good faith, without Cinder instantly vetoing it due to not being sentient?

Siral Exan

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toxi-wuff said:
How does one report an instance of faulty tagging or tag-locking across multiple related images/posts, on a single ticket? Cinder-bot states that apparently it's possible (and heavily preferred to individual tickets, for obvious reasons!) but either I'm figuratively blind (very likely) or the option doesn't actually exist (less, but still significantly, likely).

EDIT: And in the latter case, how would one report such an instance of mis-tagging in good faith, without Cinder instantly vetoing it due to not being sentient?

in the text box for any ticket, you can grab the links to other offending material (posts, comments, tag edits, et cetera) and simply link them in the box. i prefer doing line breaks for each one, instead of keeping them on one line, but that's for the sake of making it look cleaner. if you feel like it ended up looking like a mess of links, though, you can use "text":*link* to change the link to whatever's the quoted text, for example "help":https://e621.net/help turns into help.

toxi-wuff

Member

siral_exan said:
in the text box for any ticket, you can grab the links to other offending material (posts, comments, tag edits, et cetera) and simply link them in the box. i prefer doing line breaks for each one, instead of keeping them on one line, but that's for the sake of making it look cleaner. if you feel like it ended up looking like a mess of links, though, you can use "text":*link* to change the link to whatever's the quoted text, for example "help":https://e621.net/help turns into help.

Thank you! Duly noted.

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