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Managing reported content in your organization's repository

After a contributor reports disruptive content in a repository, repository maintainers can view and manage the report.

Who can use this feature?

Anyone with admin permissions to a repository can view and manage reported content for the repository.

About management of reported content

Before you can view or manage reported content, you must enable reported content for the repository. For more information, see Managing how contributors report abuse in your organization's repository.

You can track, triage, and respond to reports of disruptive content. In the "Abuse reports" list, you can view all reports and navigate directly to each reported comment on GitHub.

When disruptive behavior occurs in your community, GitHub offers tools for applying your code of conduct and de-escalating conflict. For example, you can lock a conversation to defuse a heated interaction. For more information, see "Moderating comments and conversations."

After you finish moderating disruptive content, you can mark the report as resolved. If you decide that you're not done moderating, you can also mark the report as unresolved.

Viewing content that a contributor reported

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, select Moderation options, then click Reported content.

  4. To the right of the reported content you'd like to view, click , then click View content.

    Screenshot of a reported comment. In the upper-right corner, a kebab icon is outlined in dark orange.

Resolving a report

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, select Moderation options, then click Reported content.

  4. To the right of the report you'd like to resolve, click , then click Mark as resolved.

    Screenshot of a reported comment. In the upper-right corner, a kebab icon is outlined in dark orange.

Unresolving a report

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of a repository header showing the tabs. The "Settings" tab is highlighted by a dark orange outline.

  3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, select Moderation options, then click Reported content.

  4. Under "Abuse reports", click Resolved.

  5. To the right of the report you'd like to unresolve, click , then click Mark as unresolved.

    Screenshot of a reported comment. In the upper-right corner, a kebab icon is outlined in dark orange.

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