- Report abuse from the user’s profile page
- Report abuse from a user’s comment
- Report abuse from an issue
- Report abuse from a merge request
- Related topics
Report abuse
You can report abuse from other GitLab users to GitLab administrators.
A GitLab administrator can then choose to:
- Remove the user, which deletes them from the instance.
- Block the user, which denies them access to the instance.
- Or remove the report, which retains the user’s access to the instance.
You can report a user through their:
Report abuse from the user’s profile page
To report abuse from a user’s profile page:
- Anywhere in GitLab, select the name of the user.
- In the upper-right corner of the user’s profile, select Report abuse to administrator ().
- Select a reason for reporting the user.
- Complete an abuse report.
- Select Send report.
Report abuse from a user’s comment
Reporting abuse from comments in epics introduced in GitLab 15.10.
To report abuse from a user’s comment:
- In the comment, in the upper-right corner, select More actions ().
- Select Report abuse to administrator.
- Select a reason for reporting the user.
- Complete an abuse report.
- Select Send report.
A URL to the reported user’s comment is pre-filled in the abuse report’s
Message field.
Report abuse from an issue
- On the issue, in the upper-right corner, select Issue actions ().
- Select Report abuse to administrator.
- Select a reason for reporting the user.
- Complete an abuse report.
- Select Send report.
Report abuse from a merge request
- On the merge request, in the upper-right corner, select Merge request actions ().
- Select Report abuse to administrator.
- Select a reason for reporting this user.
- Complete an abuse report.
- Select Send report.