Manually Flagging Inappropriate Messages

PubNub provides a mechanism for users to report offensive content in messages directly from their applications. A moderator can then fetch these flagged messages from storage and either delete them or take appropriate action against the users who sent the messages.

Use the addMessageAction method to add a flag as an action to a published message. When an action is added, it also publishes an event on the channel so users can hide the message on the app. The flag is stored and linked to the original message, so you can see if messages are flagged or not when you fetch them from storage.

JavaScript

Swift

Java

Unity

Go to SDK

pubnub.addMessageAction(
  {
    channel: 'ch-1'
    messageTimetoken: '15610547826970040',
    action: {
      type: 'flagged',
      value: 'message is inappropriate',
    },
  },
  function(status, response) {

  }
);

Go to SDK

extension MyAppMessageAction: MessageAction {}

let action = MyAppMessageAction(type: "flagged", value: "message is inappropriate")

pubnub.addMessageAction(
  channel: "ch-1",
  message: action,
  messageTimetoken: 15610547826969050
) { result in
  switch result {
  case let .success(response):
    print("Successfully Message Action Add Response: \(response)")
  case let .failure(error):
    print("Error from failed response: \(error.localizedDescription)")
  }
})

Go to SDK

pubnub.addMessageAction()
    .channel("ch-1")
    .messageAction(new PNMessageAction()
            .setType("flagged")
            .setValue("message is inappropriate")
            .setMessageTimetoken(15701761818730000L)
    )
    .async(new PNCallback<PNAddMessageActionResult>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(PNAddMessageActionResult result, PNStatus status) {
            if (!status.isError()) {
                System.out.println(result.getType());
                System.out.println(result.getValue());
                System.out.println(result.getUuid());
                System.out.println(result.getActionTimetoken());
                System.out.println(result.getMessageTimetoken());
            } else {
                status.getErrorData().getThrowable().printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    })

Go to SDK

MessageActionAdd messageAct = new MessageActionAdd();
messageAct.ActionType = "flagged";
messageAct.ActionValue = "message is inappropriate";

pubnub.AddMessageActions().Channel("ch-1").MessageAction(messageAct).MessageTimetoken(15701761818730000).Async((result, status) => {
        if (!status.Error) {
            Debug.Log("result.ActionTimetoken: " + result.ActionTimetoken);
            Debug.Log("result.ActionType: " + result.ActionType);
            Debug.Log("result.ActionValue: " + result.ActionValue);
            Debug.Log("result.MessageTimetoken: " + result.MessageTimetoken);
            Debug.Log("result.UUID: " + result.UUID);
        } else {
            Debug.Log(status.Error);
            Debug.Log(status.ErrorData.Info);
        }
});

Sample message action event:

{
   "channel":"my_channel",
   "subscription":null,
   "timetoken":"15871508399473609",
   "publisher":"user-1",
   "message":{
      "source":"actions",
      "version":"1.0",
      "action":"added",
      "data":{
         "type":"flagged",
         "value":"message is inappropriate",
         "messageTimetoken":"15632184115444390",
         "actionTimetoken":"15632184115444394"
      }
   }
}