Safety Patrol Dashboard Update [March 2026]

Hi, everyone! I hope you’re all having a great start to 2026 🌟

This is a post in relation to the recent PM that all Safety Patrol members should have received, about the Safety Patrol Dashboard.

*** MARCH 2026 UPDATE ***

The dashboard is ready! 🌟🌟🌟

Yay!!!!!!!! It was a lot of hard work, but I'm sure it has paid off.

Some of you may be wondering why some of your suggestions were not implemented. Please see below:

Reasons for Can’t Be Done 🔴

There are a few reasons for this.

1. Confidentiality. User reports are only seen by admin, and the form responses are only seen by Safety Team leaders. I manually review these, and the ones that are fixable (i.e., are not serious like having a sexual username or wrong age) are put on to the separate outreach dashboard, which is accessed by Safety Team leaders and the Outreach branch members. This, similarly, is to reduce breaches of privacy.

2. Privacy. If every SP user could see who flagged everyone else, it WOULD lead to upset. I see a lot of flags every day, and people are bound to know each other. Let’s have a scenario (I love these): 

Rebekah flags Heather. Heather is friends with Anna, and Anna is on the Safety Team. Anna sees the flag and gets upset or annoyed on Heather’s behalf, and then might PM Heather to say who flagged them! That itself would then cause broader issues, such as triangulation or even bullying, should Anna or Heather contact Rebekah about the flag.

It makes sense for leaders ONLY to see these reports, because then no one can be identified. I understand that you’d like to see these to prevent duplicates, but I have a way of combating duplicate flags. Let’s have another scenario…

Heather flags Rebekah and submits the form. After 5 or so days, Anna also flags Rebekah, submitting the form too. The 2nd flag (Anna’s), would then appear on the sheet as bright purple, so I know that it’s a duplicate. That way, action is not taken more than once.

3. Redundancy. If everyone saw who was sent to Outreach, it would make the Outreach dashboard redundant, in a way. The reason we have dashboards for the separate branches is to minimise the number of sheets per branch, simplicity, and to prevent ‘crossed branches’.

4. ‘Crossed Branches’. I’m calling it that because some SP users may feel inclined to PM users about their profile violation, or may want to host a discussion on safety without having the proper training.

I hope this all makes sense. I’m a firm believer in honesty and transparency, and I do my best to always offer that. I didn’t want anyone to think that I had forgotten or even ignored their suggestion, as all suggestions matter! 

Thank you for filling out the form, and thank you for being a part of such an important initiative.

Some reminders...

• Please remember to fill out the flag form found HERE so that you can be in with the chance of being a top flagger (and so we can award you with your cheers, AND MONITOR WHO FLAGS WHAT) - if you fail to log your flags here then we'll assume you are inactive. We kindly request that everyone aims for 5 flags as a minimum each month. If you are unable to make any flags during a month then please let Rebekah know.

• Our role is to flag inappropriate profiles (bios, profile pictures, and usernames), not chat topics or 1-1/group chat messages. If you are in doubt, please check the guide or contact @Rebekah (that's me). 

• We are actively looking for members to join our outreach team. Let us know if you are interested in helping out! (SO team: if you have been trained to outreach, then you do not need to flag the profile. You can instead log your outreaches on the relevant dashboard as stated in the outreach guide).

• The safety team is evolving! If you are interested in supporting our expansion as a Project Agent, please contact Rebekah via PM.