Cannot report members who limit access to their profile

[lifo]

Affected version

2.2.13

Within the forum, we can report individuals who display inappropriate behavior but have no messages within the topic just by clicking on their profiles. So far, everything is normal. However, when we click on the profiles of individuals who have restricted their profiles for privacy, we do not see a report button.

 

[FTL]

Good point.

 

[Kirby]

Hmm, yeah - this is kind of an edge-case but I"d think this is working as designed:

Reporting is always based on content, in this specific case the user profile.

If you are not allowed to view a content, you can't report it.
Which does make sense, because if you can't view the content (and thus know it), how could you meaningfully report it?

 

[FTL]

If you are not allowed to view a content, you can't report it.
Which does make sense, because if you can't view the content (and thus know it), how could you meaningfully report it?

Thing is, you might want to report general behaviour of that user and perhaps post a couple of links in the report. I think a private profile therefore should be reportable.

 

[Kirby]

You might want to report general behaviour of that user and perhaps post a couple of links in the report.

Think about that from a different angle:
What you are really reporting are various other contents (like posts, profile posts, etc. - not the user profile).

But as I already said, i fully understand the desire to "report the user".

 

[FTL]

Yes, but the profile is the reference point if you want to make a general complaint about them.

 

[Rasmus Vind]

It makes sense to have a barebone profile for those who have prevented the viewing of their profile.

You might still be able to start conversations with them too, right?

 

[Dragonfruit]

Seems like the easiest fix is to add the report button to the mini profile. The report URL still works, users are just blocked from directly accessing it.

 

[Kirby]

Seems like the easiest fix is to add the report button to the mini profile.

Great (though old) idea

Lack of interest - Add "Report" button to tooltips (xf2)

It would be great to the the report button on member tooltips.

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Duplicate - Suggestion:use 'report button on member card' addon in 1.5

I just have a small suggestion here. I would like it if they would add the 'report button on member card' addon to xenforo 1.5. It would have made reporting members convenient for someone who was not allowed to view their profile. Other than that,1.5 is awesome!(y)

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Show Report Button On Member Card

Some users do not allow their profile to be viewed by everyone (privacy) and reporting such users for their avatar, signature or other content not post related has to be forcefully done via reporting a message, which at times is confusing and a small extension to the whole method. Adding a...

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[Xon]

Adding ?tooltip=1 to the profile URL shows a mini-profile anyway, it would be nice if it showed that on a restricted profile (that wasn't a banned member) rather than needing to remember and do URL editing.