This article is part of the Wiki series: MSDN/TechNet Forums.
This article explains how to flag or report a user account that you see in any TechNet or MSDN tool, including:
You might want to flag an account that is abusing the system in the following ways:
Click here: https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/mailform/contactus.aspx?refurl=http://technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ Enter the following information in the form:
Click here: https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/mailform/contactus.aspx Enter the following information in the form:
Click here: Report Spam Thread or look for the latest 'Report SPAM thread' in that forum
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).
Naomi N edited Revision 31. Comment: Fixed link to latest report spam thread
Carsten Siemens edited Revision 30. Comment: Fixed typos
Peter Geelen - MSFT edited Revision 28. Comment: Reset focus of this article to core topic, removing off-topic items
Toni Petrina edited Revision 26. Comment: Replaced link for reporting forum spammers.
Richard Mueller edited Revision 25. Comment: Added tags, added horizontal rules
Hasham Niaz edited Revision 24. Comment: Adding NOTE , updating Report Forum Spammers Link
Richard Mueller edited Revision 21. Comment: Clean up "See Also" heading in HTML
Richard Mueller edited Revision 20. Comment: Clean up some HTML
Hasham Niaz edited Revision 16. Comment: Fixing the Report Spam 7 url
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
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 4. Comment: Added last section
Thanks to Richard. Our conversation on the Forums led to updating this article.
Fernando Lugão Veltem edited Revision 6. Comment: update font style
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: Added the "To Flag a Forum Post as Abusive" section
I added the "To Flag a Forum Post as Abusive" section.
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 10. Comment: Need "Ban" in the title for search reasons
yottun8 edited Revision 12. Comment: Added "Other Languages" section and ja-JP version.
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 13. Comment: Added See Also
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
Thanks for updating the link, Hasham!
This article was featured by Jan here: blogs.technet.com/.../community-win-how-to-ban-or-report-a-technet-or-msdn-user-account.aspx
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?
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...