Cancel reports?

[rbynxx]

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Something like this is enough if implemented and there are really times that you mistakenly type the comment you wanted to add on the report and because it has been passed anymore there's nothing you can do about it, so in the end, it will be marked as bad.

It shouldn't be marked at all. Someone cancel report and it disappear, that is whole idea. To avoid abuse (for example canceling reports which remained unhandled because they are "soft bad" or "for any other reason" and then reporting them again) countdown could be set to, I don't know, 1 day and after that you can't cancel it any more.

I don't think a countdown will be a thing I guess it will stay there as long as it hasn't been handled yet by a mod if there's a countdown to it I guess that should be the unhandled report but it will be the vice versa that if an unhandled report hasn't been handled yet for a week you can delete that report. Though the latter suggestion seems vague since reports are piling up and the report history page doesn't include all of your reports but if there's a link to it then it will be nice to delete or cancel unhandled reports because I don't think that it will be handled anymore by mods especially if a year has already passed.

Elaborate this using example from this topic you obviously didn't read  

He's caring for his quantity post for a penny.

[Harlot]

I think what will matter here is the times affected from the report. What I mean about that is if you reported it on his first post without edits and then the post have been edited I think the report should be invalidated for the reaaon that your original report is based on the first post and its not entirely about the new edited post now. Or are post reports just like deleted posts are reported as it is on the time it has been reported and the mods can see the original contemnt of the post?

[dkbit98]

For some time I have 22 unhandled reports now.
I would like them to be resolved, but if not then I would like to review cancel them.
I think this would make life a bit easier for mods also.

[TryNinja]

For some time I have 22 unhandled reports now.
I would like them to be resolved, but if not then I would like to review cancel them.
I think this would make life a bit easier for mods also.

If they remain unhandled for so long, it means none of the mods knew what to do with the report (nor good nor bad) and they just skipped it. Just don't mind them, since these are not making their lifes any harder.

[hilariousandco]

I guess it would be helpful in some cases, though in cases like this just make another report with an update or just PM a staff member about it, but as others said one or two bad reports is irrelevant.

Does reporting accuracy have any effect on whether moderators look at your reports or not? I like the idea of canceling reports but I can't imagine a few bad reports should have any major consequences.

No. Not unless you had like 99% bad reports or were using the report queue to troll in some capacity.

So if the user decides to pull back the report, will it be marked as Bad or simply deleted so the accuracy remains unaffected?

Well marking it as bad would be counter-productive I think. It probably should just be scrubbed/deleted from the queue.