Reporting posts, taking umbrage, and the like....

[Bystander]

Is there any way to enable some sort of compositioning/editing of the reporting function? It is somewhat annoying to have to back up to see what "one" was first annoyed with/by. Not all that often that it has occurred, but there have been occasions when I've cursed the fact that it is necessary to "re-" report.

 

[anorlunda]

It's not clear what you are asking for. But editing a report has the same disadvantage as editing a post in a thread. Some people (Mentors in the case of a report) may have read your original version, and may not notice if you change it by edit.

Better to re-report so that they see both versions of what you're trying to say. You can always say, "Disregard my previous report." in the re-report.

 

[berkeman]

Is there any way to enable some sort of compositioning/editing of the reporting function?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but as for editing the things you send to the Report forum, the answer is no. Even our Mentor comments in the Reports forum cannot be edited by us, which is a bit annoying when we notice a typo or something in one of our comments. In the regular forums we can easily edit our posts, but (I think by design) reports and comments in the report threads are non-editable.

As @anorlunda says, just re-click the same Report link in the post, and add extra comments, etc.

 

[berkeman]

Is there any way to enable some sort of compositioning/editing of the reporting function?

BTW, does this mean you'd like to modify your recent post report that is currently pending and under Mentor discussion?

 

[Bystander]

No. Just wanted to acknowledge Borek.

 

[berkeman]

Ah, got it. No worries, it's already been assigned to him.

 

[BillTre]

You could start a report and then, if you want to go back to another at the offending thread, you can open another tab on the same thread and look at it that way.

 

[berkeman]

You could start a report and then, if you want to go back to another at the offending thread, you can open another tab on the same thread and look at it that way.

Did you get stung by one of those funny-looking fish tonight Bill?

 

[BillTre]

Maybe left out some words?:

You could start a report and then, if you want to go back to get another look at the offending thread, you can open another tab on the same thread and look at it that way.

My understanding of his complaint was that he could not start a report and then go back and look at the problem again, to put something else into his report. This allows him to do that without leaving his reprot.

 

[berkeman]

Oh, I get it now. Use 2 tabs so that you can keep the report tab open while you go back and review the post to see if you want to tune up your report before submitting it.

 

[phinds]

What you can also do is cut/paste your draft report into a WP, kill your report, tune your report in the WP, cut/paste the finished version into a report. Other than the tuning itself, which of course could take a lot of time, it takes less time to do this than it just did for me to explain it.

 

[berkeman]

Most of the time, post reports are short and to the point. In the few cases where a report is confusing to the Mentors, usually one of us will volunteer to send the reporting user a PM to ask for clarification. No big deal.