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title: Abuse reports
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The **Abuse report** application enables site visitors to report various forms of website abuse. This can be anything from flame-type forum posts, rude comments on blog posts or message boards, spamming, links to illegal content or any other form of website abuse coming from user input.

Website users can report abuse using one of the provided web parts – **Abuse report** and **In-line abuse report**. Both web parts are described on the [Available web parts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/abuse-reports/abuse-reporting-web-parts.md) page. The [Adding abuse reporting functionality to transformations](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/abuse-reports/adding-abuse-reporting-functionality-to-transformations.md) page demonstrates how the In-line abuse report web part can be used in transformations to provide the abuse report functionality together with dynamically loaded content.

![Example of the Report abuse dialog](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/abuse-reports/example_abuse_report.png "Example of the Report abuse dialog")

Abuse report is also embedded in web parts from [Forums](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/forums.md) and [Message boards](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/message-boards.md). See [Integrating abuse reporting with other community features](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/abuse-reports/integrating-abuse-reporting-with-other-community-features.md) for more information.

Website administrators can read and manage submitted reports in the **Abuse report** application. This is where a list of submitted reports is displayed, with the possibility to get redirected to the source of reported abuse and take an appropriate action. A user who wants to manage abuse reports must be in a role granted with appropriate [permissions](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users/configuring-permissions.md) for the application.

![List of abuse reports](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/abuse-reports/abuse_report_list.png "List of abuse reports")

Abuse report is just one of the functions which can help you deal with unwanted user behavior on your site. If you want to keep your site free of rude language or filter user input based on contained keywords, use the **Bad words** application. If you are facing a problem with notorious spammers or have another reason why an IP address should be prevented from accessing your site, you can deny access to a particular IP address using the [Banned IPs](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/securing-websites/designing-secure-websites/securing-and-protecting-the-system/banned-ips.md) application.