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How to Ban or Report a TechNet or MSDN User Account

How to Ban or Report a TechNet or MSDN User Account

This article is part of the Wiki series: MSDN/TechNet Forums.

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This article explains how to flag or report a user account that you see in any TechNet or MSDN tool, including:

  • TechNet Wiki
  • Forums
  • Blogs
  • Gallery/Samples
  • Library Annotations

You might want to flag an account that is abusing the system in the following ways:

  • Inappropriate name, rude, or are using crude words
  • Spam account (the account's only purpose is to advertise)
    • NOTE: Do not confuse this with users who link to their sites or blogs. This is when a post is clearly off topic and clearly only exists to advertise an unrelated Web site.

To Report a TechNet Wiki Account

Click here: https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/mailform/contactus.aspx?refurl=http://technet.microsoft.com/wiki/

Enter the following information in the form: 

  1. Name of the alias/account
  2. Link to the account's Profile page
  3. Link to any spam pages (such as Wiki spam changes)

To Report Any TechNet/MSDN Account

Click here: https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/mailform/contactus.aspx

Enter the following information in the form:

  1. Name of the alias/account
  2. Link to the account's Profile page
  3. Link to any spam pages (such as Forum spam posts)

To Report Forum Spammers

Click here: Report Spam Thread or look for the latest 'Report SPAM thread' in that forum

  1. Link to the account's Profile page.
  2. Link to any spam pages (such as Forum spam posts)

Report abusive content

To Flag a Forum Post as Abusive

You might need to flag a specific post as inappropriate (rude, button pushing, etc.) or as spam. But it isn't clear that the account should be banned (this is most cases). 

  1. In the bottom-right corner of any forum post (including the original post for the thread), click Report As Abuse. This opens a drop-down menu.
  2. Click one of the options. If you're unsure, it doesn't matter too much which one you pick.
  3. Make sure you clearly explain the reason for reporting the post.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Only report other people's posts when they are explicitly violating the terms of use.
Disagreement with technical content, or dislike of a person is no reason for reporting content or persons. 

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  • 9 Aug 2013 10:05 AM

    Naomi  N edited Revision 31. Comment: Fixed link to latest report spam thread

  • 14 May 2013 4:34 AM

    Carsten Siemens edited Revision 30. Comment: Fixed typos

  • 24 Apr 2013 1:26 AM

    Peter Geelen - MSFT edited Revision 28. Comment: Reset focus of this article to core topic, removing off-topic items

  • 5 Feb 2013 1:02 AM

    Toni Petrina edited Revision 26. Comment: Replaced link for reporting forum spammers.

  • 2 Feb 2013 8:17 AM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 25. Comment: Added tags, added horizontal rules

  • 18 Sep 2012 3:02 AM

    Hasham Niaz edited Revision 24. Comment: Adding NOTE , updating Report Forum Spammers Link

  • 12 Sep 2012 5:57 PM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 21. Comment: Clean up "See Also" heading in HTML

  • 12 Sep 2012 5:54 PM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 20. Comment: Clean up some HTML

  • 17 Aug 2012 11:17 AM

    Hasham Niaz edited Revision 16. Comment: Fixing the Report Spam 7 url

  • 17 Aug 2012 11:15 AM

    Hasham Niaz edited Revision 15. Comment: Updating the link page since Report Spam 6 is locked need to point it to new page i.e; Report Spam 7

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  • Posted by
    on 18 Jun 2012 12:45 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 4. Comment: Added last section

  • Posted by
    on 18 Jun 2012 12:48 PM

    Thanks to Richard. Our conversation on the Forums led to updating this article.

  • Posted by
    on 21 Jun 2012 6:06 AM

    Fernando Lugão Veltem edited Revision 6. Comment: update font style

  • Posted by
    on 20 Jul 2012 12:22 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: Added the "To Flag a Forum Post as Abusive" section

  • Posted by
    on 20 Jul 2012 2:25 PM

    I added the "To Flag a Forum Post as Abusive" section.

  • Posted by
    on 24 Jul 2012 2:30 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 10. Comment: Need "Ban" in the title for search reasons

  • Posted by
    on 25 Jul 2012 7:24 PM

    yottun8 edited Revision 12. Comment: Added "Other Languages" section and ja-JP version.

  • Posted by
    on 14 Aug 2012 12:33 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 13. Comment: Added See Also

  • Posted by
    on 17 Aug 2012 11:13 AM

    Hi Ed !

    I think we need to put updated link for Report Forum Spammers as Report Spam 6 is locked now. Okay i am Editing this with new link, hopefully you won't mind me editing.

    Thanks, Hasham Niaz

  • Posted by
    on 17 Aug 2012 11:15 AM

    Hasham Niaz edited Revision 15. Comment: Updating the link page since Report Spam 6 is locked need to point it to new page i.e; Report Spam 7

  • Posted by
    on 17 Aug 2012 11:17 AM

    Hasham Niaz edited Revision 16. Comment: Fixing the Report Spam 7 url

  • Posted by
    on 28 Aug 2012 11:07 PM

    Thanks for updating the link, Hasham!

  • Posted by
    on 31 Aug 2012 10:27 AM

    This article was featured by Jan here: blogs.technet.com/.../community-win-how-to-ban-or-report-a-technet-or-msdn-user-account.aspx

  • Posted by
    on 6 Sep 2012 12:29 PM

    So why was my account banned if I didn't break any of the rules?  Is there some way to find out who banned my account and why?

  • Posted by
    on 9 Sep 2012 1:20 PM

    Although wiki pages say 'Report inappropriate content using the Report Abuse link in the footer' there is no such link; could it be added to wiki pages as well as forum posts? As it means the only option for wiki problems is reporting the account rather than the page...

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