User Blocking & Reporting

Included in Free - This feature is available in the free version of MediaVerse.

MediaVerse includes a blocking system that prevents specific users from interacting with you and a reporting system that lets users flag abusive content or accounts for moderator review.

Blocking a User

Open the member’s profile, open the action menu (the three dots) and select Block. The same menu has Unblock once you have blocked them.

What Blocking Does

When you block a user, they cannot:

• View your media items (media items are hidden from them on all browse pages and their direct links show as not found)
• Send you direct messages (your profile shows no Message button for them; any existing conversation is locked)
• Follow you (the Follow button is removed for them)
• Comment on your media
• React to your media

A block hides media both ways in lists: neither of you sees the other’s media on browse pages, profiles or feeds. The person who blocked can still open a direct link to the blocked member’s public media; the blocked member cannot open the blocker’s.

Blocks are stored per-user and do not require any admin action.

Unblocking a User

Open Blocked members in your profile settings (the profile edit page, or the profile panel of your media dashboard) to see everyone you have blocked and remove individual blocks. You can also unblock from the member’s profile action menu or via the REST API.

User Reporting

Reporting a user notifies the site moderators. It does not automatically take any action on the reported account.

To report a user, open the action menu on their profile and select Report. Choose a reason from the dropdown and optionally add details.

Report Reasons

The same reason whitelist applies to both user and media reports:

Value
spam
harassment
nudity
violence
copyright
misinformation
other

Reports appear in MediaVerse > Moderation on the Reports tab. Moderators with the moderate_mvs_media capability can review, dismiss, or act on reports.

Media Reporting

Any logged-in member can also report a comment or a chat message. Any logged-in user can report a media item from the media card or the media detail page using the flag icon.

Report Reasons

Media reports use the same whitelist as user reports: spam, harassment, nudity, violence, copyright, misinformation, other.

When a media item accumulates reports equal to the Auto-Hide Threshold set in MediaVerse > Settings > Moderation, it is automatically hidden and added to the moderation queue.

Reporting settings

Found on MediaVerse > Settings > Moderation.

Setting	What it does	Default
Member Reporting	Lets members report media and members. Turning it off hides every Report control and refuses incoming reports.	On
Auto-Hide Threshold	Number of reports before media is hidden automatically. 0 turns it off.	3
Community Guidelines URL	Link to your rules, shown in the app and next to the Report control.	Empty

REST API

Base URL: /wp-json/mvs/v1/

All endpoints require a logged-in user. Pass the X-WP-Nonce header with a nonce from wp_create_nonce( 'wp_rest' ).

POST /users/{id}/block

Block a user.

Response: 200 OK

{ "blocked": true }

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DELETE /users/{id}/block

Unblock a user.

Response: 200 OK

{ "blocked": false }

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GET /me/blocked

List users blocked by the current user.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
per_page	int	20	Blocked users per page
page	int	1	Page number

Response: Array of user objects with id, name, and avatar_url.

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POST /users/{id}/report

Report a user account.

Body:

Field	Required	Description
reason	Yes	One of: spam, harassment, nudity, violence, copyright, misinformation, other
details	No	Optional free-text note visible to moderators

Response: 200 OK

{ "reported": true }

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POST /media/{id}/report

Report a media item.

Body:

Field	Required	Description
reason	Yes	One of: spam, harassment, nudity, violence, copyright, misinformation, other
details	No	Optional free-text note

Response: 200 OK

{ "reported": true }

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Actions and Filters

mvs_user_blocked

Fires after a user is blocked.

add_action( 'mvs_user_blocked', function( $blocker_id, $blocked_id ) {
    // Perform additional cleanup or logging.
}, 10, 2 );

mvs_report_submitted

Fires after a report is submitted. The $target_type is user, media, comment or message.

add_action( 'mvs_report_submitted', function( $report_id, $reporter_id, $target_type, $target_id, $reason ) {
    // Notify a Slack channel, send to an external moderation service, etc.
}, 10, 5 );