As with any other online platform interaction, WhatsApp can happen to run into people who do not respect the rules of coexistence, education and respect for others. For this reason, within the application there is the option to “report” the behavior of people or groups that violate the internal regulations of the application, so that the moderators can decide whether to expel them from the service or not. A function called “report” and that although it has been active for a long time, now changes in a quite significant way. Let’s see then, what happens from today when you report someone on WhatsApp? .
What happens from today when you report someone on WhatsApp?
As we say, the option to report a WhatsApp account has been active for months, but in recent weeks the developers have made some changes: the new reporting system comes along with the latest WhatsApp updates, which Android and iOS smartphones have already received or receive these days.
What happens when you report someone on WhatsApp?
If you want to report the incorrect behavior of a user or group on WhatsApp, it is always necessary to open the conversation in question and then visit the related options by tapping the button with the three vertical dots located at the top right of the screen. If you “click” on ” More ” you will see the first option to ” report ” and thus send a “report” to WhatsApp moderators.
In this way, WhatsApp receives the conversation but although until recently we did not know how much information (or part of the chat) the application had access to, since this week we have realized that a new “notice” appears when we report someone.
The new WhatsApp reporting system
The novelty introduced in these versions is the number of messages that the application automatically forwards to the moderators. While in previous versions the developers specified that the forwarded messages would be only the last ones, but we emphasized that we did not know how many they were, from now on the reports will contain a micro history of the last 5 messages exchanged between the contacts who participated in the conversation. in question. This limit should help the moderators of the platform to understand the context in which a report occurred without excessively invading the privacy of the protagonists.
However, it is evident that just by analyzing the last five messages, depending on the chat or the conversation, WhatsApp may not find anything offensive and therefore does not end up reporting that user (although we always have our option to block that person if is not bothering).
Expulsion policies
However, as has been the case so far, submitting a report does not automatically result in the removal of the contact reported by the service, even when the highlighted behavior actually violates WhatsApp rules; in fact, before taking such action, moderators generally wait for the reports received for a given account to exceed a certain threshold. Therefore, the advice for anyone who encounters illegal behavior within the application is to act without hesitation and quickly: waiting too long to receive the reports, in fact, you run the risk of the incriminating messages becoming stale and are not included in the count of those that are forwarded.
