"Report Abuse" or "Report Bullying" Button

Question

I came here to report about someone who bullied me a few days ago but to my surprise, their account is already temporarily suspended, most likely, within a couple of days from now. But most likely the suspension happened because of someone else maybe "reporting" them. I don't know. It still doesn't solve the problem that, that user deleted my 1 question unnecessarily and by downvoting on some other posts cost me around 40 rep.

But this is not just about the 40 rep or even me in general. When such a thing happened to me, I felt down momentarily for being kind of helpless (my rep was less than 150 then) and I thought that a person with more than 200k rep must be totally immune. But thanks to recent observation, they're not (Great and Way to go MSE! :-)).

So, I have following questions:

1. How did they get banned? I mean I get the reasons now but not the triggerer as in the action that brought it into the limelight. Was it some person reporting it here on Meta or community in general patrolling its user on regular basis or is there a button like the flag button to report on some user too such as "Report Bullying" or "Report Abuse".
2. If there is no such button, shouldn't there be one so that a user can report such a thing happening to them. (Note: The flag button needs us to visit every question and is less about some user in general, rather, about the question itself. And the harassment may be too spread out, like not just several questions but answers too.)
3. How to try/ensure that the user who/whose account was bullied, is restored to its previous unharmed state?

(Not sure which tag this question fits out of: discussion, support, feature-request)

Answer 1

We diamond moderators are typically the ones that mediate user conflicts and enforce the CoC. Please do bring it to our attention if you feel you're being bullied or abused by another user.

You only need to flag once, even if the bullying takes place across multiple posts or comments. Flags have a write-in option ("Something else") where you can describe the problem you're having. It's good to include as much information as possible, but we have tools to investigate, so don't worry if you can't include everything. Links are helpful when you have room, but not necessary.

Keep in mind that you can't tell for sure who casts downvotes, or whether they have proxy accounts. You may be able to tell who cast a close or delete vote. However, if many of your posts are being closed, take a moment to consider if the votes are really unfair. Are you sure your posts are well-written and follow the guidelines? Take a moment to consider this before reporting, as the solution may be simply improving your post.

A few things to note about voting:

• There's not much we can do about single downvotes. It's not until the downvotes become a pattern that the situation is potentially actionable.

• Bursts of downvotes-- for example, if somebody goes through your profile and downvotes all your posts-- are automatically invalidated by the system. Be patient, though, as this doesn't always happen quickly.

• As mentioned in the comments, we can't share details about specific users, so you will not know what moderator actions your flag has lead to. At this point, the best thing to do is simply move on, knowing it is out of your hands.

Answer 2

1. Unless you're an insider, unlikely you will get information on this. The banning process here is one without clear transparency. Of course, I have found it that users are free to discuss bans of other users on meta. For example, I have found the moderators being criticized for laying bans on certain high effort users who answered some questions violating EOQS.

1.5. If you want to report behavior, you can sumbit a request through the report dialogue box. To open up report dialogue menu you can either click this button in comment:

Or, you can click this button at bottom of post:

2. Usually once the bad actor user is punished, their actions are reversed as well.