Report, Block, or Skip?
Three controls sit within a thumb of each other, they all make an uncomfortable moment go away, and most people reach for whichever is closest. They are not interchangeable. One is weightless, one is private, and one puts a real person to work — and using the heavy one for a light problem has a cost most sites never mention.
In this guide
Three buttons, three different jobs
In a live 1-on-1 room, skip, block, and report all end the situation you are in. That surface similarity is exactly why they get mixed up. What separates them is not how they feel in the moment — it is how far each one reaches.
Skip reaches no further than the current room. Block reaches exactly two people, you and them, forever. Report leaves your phone entirely and lands in front of another human being who has to make a decision about somebody's access to the platform. Reaching for the third one when the first would do is not harmless, and we will get to why.
Which one fits your situation
| What happened | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| They were fine, just not your type | Skip | No rule was broken. Move on, nothing to record. |
| Nothing wrong, but you never want to see them again | Block | Private preference. Stops the match repeating. |
| Rude or annoying, but not against the rules | Block | Protects you without occupying a reviewer. |
| Nudity, harassment, threats, or anything illegal | Report | Breaks the Guidelines. A person needs to see this. |
| You think they might be underage | Report | Always report. Never just skip past this one. |
| They asked you for money or pushed you to another app | Report | Classic scam pattern — reporting protects the next person too. |
The short version: block is for you, report is for everyone else. If the honest answer to "would the next person be harmed by this too?" is no, you want block.
Skip — costs nothing, means nothing
Skip is the lightest control on the platform and it is meant to be used constantly. No judgement is attached to it, nothing is written down about the other person, and it says nothing about them beyond "not this, right now". Most people you skip have done nothing wrong, and most people who skip you feel the same way.
If the reason you are hesitating is that skipping feels rude — it is not. A fast, guilt-free exit is the mechanism that makes an open queue tolerable for everybody in it.
Block — personal, instant, private
Blocking stops that account from being matched with you again. It takes effect on your side immediately, and no one reviews it, because there is nothing to review — it is your preference, not an accusation.
Block is the correct tool far more often than people think. Rude, boring, weird, made you uncomfortable without breaking any rule — all of that is block, not report. You get the exact outcome you wanted, instantly, and nobody has to adjudicate anything.
The one thing block does not do is protect anyone else. It is a wall between two accounts. If what happened was genuinely against the rules, blocking alone means the next person walks into the same thing.
Report — goes to a person, and has weight
Report is the only one of the three that leaves your device and asks somebody to make a judgement. That is what makes it powerful and also what makes it worth using carefully.
The first thing you will notice is that it is not a single tap. You have to choose a reason before you can submit. That is deliberate: a reviewer reads the reason first, and "this person was naked on camera" and "this person asked me for money" go to very different places. A report with no reason attached would be nearly useless to the person reading it.
Reporting in bad faith can restrict your own account. The app tells you this at the moment you submit, and it is not a bluff. This is the part most platforms leave out of their safety page, so here it is plainly: a review queue anyone can spam is a review queue that has stopped protecting anybody. The threshold protects genuine reports, not rule-breakers.
None of that is a reason to hesitate when something actually happened. Nudity, harassment, threats, anything illegal, anything that makes you think the person on the other side might be a minor — report it, every time, without second-guessing yourself. The Community Guidelines set out where the line sits.
What actually happens after you tap report
- You choose a reason. The list is not fixed forever — it is maintained on our side and changes as patterns change. Pick the closest one; it is the first thing a reviewer sees.
- You submit, and get a confirmation. That confirms the report reached us, not that a decision has been made.
- A real person reviews it, within 24 hours. Not a filter, not a model that auto-bans on report count — a member of our team reads it.
- Repeat violations end in permanent removal of cam access. And that standard applies to both sides of a call equally — being on the queue side is not a shield.
Twenty-four hours is the honest figure rather than a comfortable one. A number like "reviewed in minutes" reads better on a homepage, but it would be a promise about a human being that we cannot keep every time — and a safety promise you cannot keep every time is worse than a modest one you can.
In the meantime, you are not left waiting on us. Blocking works instantly and does not depend on the outcome of any review, so the practical move after reporting someone is usually to block them too and get on with your evening.
FAQ
You pick a reason first — reporting is not a single anonymous tap, you have to say what the problem was. That submission then goes to a real person on our side, and it is reviewed within 24 hours. The reason you picked matters, because it is the thing a reviewer reads first.