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I have 2 reports, so far all my reporter is good, the question is,
1. how to look the history report?,
because I have noticed: You have reported 2 posts with 100% accuracy., which mean all my 2 report is perfect.

I am just curious about 1 of my reports that feel is looking bad, I reported 1 thread to move to economic board, but when I look again the thread has moved to the bitcoin discussion board, which means I have a bad report?, correct if I am mistaken.

so in this case,
2. if the moderator moves the topic, whatever the reporter did (if not in accordance with the board) will mark as good?

After you make 300 good reports.

Usually moderators are not really demand 100% correct report, even if you say you report the post should be moved to economic board, but if the thread is more correctly to be moved to Bitcoin discussion board, your report wouldn't become bad report. It still a good report if you report for a correct reason, although it could be a soft-bad report.

Yes.

I myself have reported a post that fail to provide the correct reference link to where he/she copied the article they posted, I guess mine must have been marked as good since the post got deleted. It actually feels good to see mods respond to your reports.

anyway I guess this quoted post answers your question.
full thread here: [Unofficial Guide] Reporting effectively (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4519248.0)

~valar~

You may not get 100% accuracy, it's not really a big deal. Just keep reporting what you think is an infraction. I wouldn't worry about how many good or bad or even the number of reports you do, just trying to help is enough.

Moderators are always searching for the right information but cannot search for all of it. If your post is moved to the economic thread Transfer if you think is correct. But since you've created a board other than Bitcoin Bot, here's yours The report will be good. I think you'll do best posting on Bitcoin Sed.

As far as I know, if you report a topic and the topic is moved to another board, the moderator must select the status (bad or good) manually. So, it's not that your report would be definitely marked as good. That depends on the moderators' decision.
It's also possible that a moderator see your report, mark it as bad and don't take any action on the post. Then another moderator move the topic. In this case, your report will be still bad.

That's a good report if you ask me. By reporting a thread to be moved, what you are saying is this thread doesn't belong in this sub. Please take a look at it and consider moving it to sub X. The fact alone that you are correct and the discussion doesn't belong there should be enough for your report to be marked as 'good'. Maybe you were wrong about the final destination, and that decision in on the moderator, but you were right about where it doesn't belong.

I've had dozen/s of reports where I put where I think the thread should be but it was instead put on another board, yet my report was still marked as good(at least as far as I remember). I guess as long the moderator agrees that the thread should not be in that board the report will be marked as good, despite them not following where you think the thread should go.

OP, you must understand that you are not the only one submitting the report. Simultaneously, someone submits the exact same report, claiming that the topic belongs in the Bitcoin section. 
The moderator agreed with one of the reporters and moved the topic to a more appropriate place. 
As for the moved topic, if the move request was correct, then the report will look good. 
As an example, today's topic, originally posted in the meta, has moved to the reputation section.

https://i.ibb.co/TBNRYtC/Screenshot.png (https://ibb.co/nsKf6jW)

I completely agree with you. That's a good report.
My point was that it's not that the report is marked as good automatically if the topic move to another board. As the moderator must select the status manually, it's possible that the report is marked as bad.

As far as I know, when a post is reported and the post is deleted, the report is automatically marked as good even if you have reported the post for something else.
It's not the same when a post is moved. The decision should be made by the moderator and I agree that the moderator should mark the report as good.

Why are some of you too serious about reporting and it's stats? LOL

My reporting accuracy is 89%.
Who can tell after all these years how many reports I made?
I have some BTC to spare, 0.00098414 BTC.
Closest one will receive 0.0003 BTC

Rest will be sent to two more members.
You will post the number of total reports you made so far.
The top two will get the reward.

Highest number will receive 0.0004 BTC
The 2nd highest will receive the rest excluding the fees the transaction need
Don't cheat LOL

Shall we go?
Post your btc address with answer. Deadline is 31 October midnight forum time 😂

Staff, moderator and admin are excluded 😉

Additionally LoyceV can not join. Human only. 🤣

I sent a self message with the number of reports I made so far. In case it requires to prove then the PM will be reported to the staff.

I think you should not worry a lot about accuracy of your reports and keep working on it as moderator will take action according to what they find suitable and mark your report as good.In your case if it's moved to bitcoin discussion instead of other board your recommended because someone else might have said so or moderator find it perfect board for that particular thread but still your report should be marked as good.

I know a name which has really high amount of reports submitted and with good mark and he is none other then @Ratimov who has also previously dedicated a thread for it here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5384720.msg59178844#msg59178844) in which he has submitted 100,000 reports as good so this is old record so he might have gone above it not checked now so one of top in this matter.

I just felt we are going to hijack the thread. To avoid it I reposted this game to the Games and rounds sub board. Submit your answer on that post please: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418636.0

Just keep reporting. I think the odds of getting more good than bad is bigger as long as you are familiar with the board and threads which you report should be the post belong. Like others said, as long as you are helping the accuracy isnt matter at all. In fact, even long timer might got wrong also when it comes to that. Keep up the good work.

If you want to contribute forum and make it better than just keep reporting bad posts and you will soon see your reports in this page:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=reportlist;mine

Yes in this case it will be market as good report, but sometimes it gets unhandled and nothing happens, so it all depends from moderators.
I just checked my reported post accuracy and it is around 97% but I don't really care about this stats, and I don't check history of reported post unless there is something suspicious.

Here's my shot in the dark

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That's definitely how it works as I quite often report topics to be moved and sometimes mods move topic in another board and not the one I suggested is the right one and it still gets marked as good.

As a matter of fact, you don't even have to mention where topic that you are reporting should be moved if you are not sure. Its enough just to report it and write that "topic doesn't belong in this board" or something along those lines and if mods agree with you and topic gets moved, it will be marked as good.

OP, as long as you have more good reports than bad ones, you don't have to worry about your reporting accuracy too much. Once you have more than 300 good reports, you will be able to see your report history, which will help you to learn from your mistakes and improve upon future reports. Just keep reporting!

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I follow this same policy. When I'm not sure where a discussion thread should be moved, I leave that decision to the moderators. But I also do everything I can to make their jobs easier, so for example, when it comes to reporting multiposting, I always refer to other posts so that the moderators don't have to look through the user's history.

OP, your question has been answered and I don't think there's anything else to confuse you about it.

Now listen, if you want to be spam buster then try to report more low quality posts from forum users. You don't have to worry about the report but try to have a good standard for reporting other users' posts.

I know reporting spammers takes time and good knowledge of judging posts, but I think reporting extensions can save you a lot of time. I used it, it was very helpful.

Thanks for all the comment, this make me clear and understand how the reports work. I don't mind it either if I got a false or received a bad report. So far I still don't know, which is true, I am still new and never have had experience as a reporter, Possible I will receive a mark bad when continuing because I still don't really understand the rules, when I look at BPIP I have 26 Posts deleted by moderators from 387 posts. which means I'm still learning from my mistakes, I still not good as a reporter.

I still learn how to use it, thank you for your advance.
where I can find that link?

You can try two following userscripts

• [Userscript] Report to moderator on post history (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5101823.0)
• [HACK] One-click mod report, not for the faint of heart (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103488.0)

And perhaps you will find other useful tools from Quote locked threads, 120-day merit total, custom themes, and other good stuff (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5290372.0)

I love how the forum keeps these records. My stats, for example, show that I have 1 bad report and 8 unhandled ones. Yet, my reporting accuracy is 100%. ;D I don't report that much. But imagine you watch a news report about a highway accident involving dozens of cars. 1 driver was killed, which means that 100% of them made it home sound and safe.   

Read the forum rules (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0#post_rules). It will help you to know which posts have been made against the rules.
Also, if you doubt whether a topic has been made in the correct board or not, you can get help from Guidelines for threads (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0#post_guidelines).


It may worth mentioning that the report accuracy is always rounded up. So, any percentage above 99% is reported 100%.
My report accuracy is now 99% while the exact percentage is 98.37%.

I believe we're dealing with a hypothetical situation there, thus why I underlined that part. However, let me throw realism into it and ask "isn't that the right thing to do if mods feel a report is bad, to ignore it?" It's like raising a false alarm and the police gets there, realizes it calls for no concern. The police turns and leaves. The one that should be horrible is when it's marked as good report on a bad post and no action is taken on it, isn't it? Is there anything I'm misplacing here?

Imagine how much time the police would waste if they responded to hundreds or thousands of these reports every day and there were no consequences for it? A lot of real crime wouldn't be stopped or prevented in real time by all that time wasting. So, when you call the police, they ask for your name and address, so they have you on file. With today's technology, they don't need to in many cases, but still.

Reporting false crimes and alarms is against the law in normal countries, and you could be fined or charged for doing it. Bitcointalk won't charge you, but your "punishment" is a bad report.   

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Everyone here will beat me in this contest because of above figure.

Yeah, I know and I don't think anybody would've any issue having their reports tagged bad if it was a false crime. The issue I raised is that the person who reported a post (which they didn't know was a false report) shouldn't expect that the post(s) would either be moved or deleted. Again, I've read somewhere here where members complained that reports they made were marked good but no action was taken on the said posts. I wonder why that happens. Perhaps the mods are overwhelmed with work?

@tranthidung has answered you, apply it in your browser if you like to use it.

Consider that moderators are human and they are very likely to get tired or make some mistakes, it doesn't really mean anything as long as the report is handled. They handle it manually, so such problems should be understandable. I'm know that reporting accuracy shouldn't be a concern, but if you want to be a moderator then maybe you should pay attention to accuracy and report more posts.

I would advise you to not use any tools for faster reporting until you have more experience with reports and until you get the better feeling of which posts are breaking forum rules and should be removed.


As Pmalek said, there should be some consequences for a bad report otherwise mods would be flooded, but they are already doing something similar to what you suggested via unhandled reports that can be sometimes seen as "soft bad". So, when mods are not sure how to act on a report, instead of flagging it "bad" they will just leave it as unhandled indefinitely as those reports don't affect percentage.

This got me thinking. I wonder if theymos has an option to prevent a user from reporting? Let's say I am angry at the world of Bitcointalk, and I just start flooding the mods with hundreds of posts per day for the fun of it. They will obviously notice that the same user is just spamming and falsely reporting. I have never heard that someone got banned for overreporting, but I am guessing that's what would happen if the user didn't stop after being warned. 

Normally, that you made a report that your post should be moved to a certain board and it was moved elsewhere does not mean your report was bad, it's likely to be that maybe the board you requested is not the right thread for it, as that's the work of moderators and they knows best. Because normally there are three or more common reasons why people make reports to moderators, and they are...
1. To report a post for plagiarism
2. To report that a comment should be deleted
3. To report that a post should be moved to a different board. e.t.c

As it is the duty of each moderator that threads aren't spam  

I have a new question about reporting to a moderator which I think is still on the related topic because I create a thread with the general question ( I won't create many threads to only a question related).

1. when accidentally sending twice reports on the same post, what next happens?
If that post reported mark is good, is another one marked good also?

2. I've a double post at the same time or making posts sequentially, and my 2nd post is deleted without merged
but in another post, I find another member get merged his post, not wiped clean like me.
the question is what the criteria the post got delete clean and merger?

To Question 1.
It depends , sometimes if one of the 2 reports get marked as good the other also maybe gets marked as good.
But sometimes one gets marked as good and the other as bad , if all 2 are wrong reported both marked as bad.
It depends on the Moderator that handle the reports i guess.

To Question 2.
Mostly its happen when the post is to long without any content to the topic or to much off topic.
Also here it depends i guess on the Moderator that is handling it.