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Presumably this could be abused by the sort of people you’re trying to ban—most people wouldn’t do this sort of thing but bad faith reports are a problem on lots of social media sites.

Thanks! I must realy think about it too

So if five buddies flag somebody, they are automatically banned? Consider this: any system that can be gamed will be gamed and abused.

Voila, here's the problem with these systems. Check Twitter: groups of people mass reporting other accounts for nothing and most of them get banned.

OPSEC advice:

I wouldn’t disclose the heuristics of these policies.