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I used to post pictures of some English clubs on a social media called Little Red Book, but recently I noticed that I was warned and banned from my pictures being seen (by other users) because someone’s keeping reporting me to the server of Little Red book. I wrote a sentence to describe this idea:

Someone has been keeping reporting me to the server on a social media therefore I was warned and banned from posting any more pictures.

I said this to my friend who knows Little Red Book and who knows what I’m doing.

Please help me with a natural version of idiomatic English of the italic sentence.
 
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I used to post pictures of some English clubs on a social media called Little Red Book, but recently I noticed that was warned and banned from my pictures being seen (by other users) for posting the pictures because someone’s keeping has been reporting me to the server of Little Red book. I wrote a sentence to describe this idea:

Someone has been keeping reporting me to the server on a social media, therefore I was warned and banned from posting any more pictures.

I said this to my friend who knows Little Red Book and who knows what I’m doing.
 
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I used to post pictures of some English clubs on a social media platform called Little Red Book, but recently I noticed that I was had been warned and banned from posting my pictures being seen (by other users) because someone’s keeping someone kept reporting me. to the server of Little Red Book. I wrote said a the following sentence to describe this: idea:

Someone has been keeping kept reporting me to the server admins on of a social media platform therefore so I was have been warned and banned from posting any more pictures.

I said this to my friend who knows Little Red Book and who knows what I’m I've been doing.

Please help me with a natural an idiomatic version of idiomatic English of the italic sentence.
See above. We don't report people to a server. The reports go to the admins or moderators of a platform.
 
Much appreciated!

Someone kept reporting me to the admins of a social media platform so I have been warned and banned from posting any more pictures.
I have one more question about the tense here. "Kept" is past tense and suggests a completed action in the past while "have been" indicates an ongoing or recent result of that action. Will this two tenses clash in my sentence?

I think this person will keep doing that until I am permanently banned. I want to change the tense to the present tense. Could you please shed some light on this new version?

Someone has kept reporting me to the admins of a social media platform so I have been warned and banned from posting any more pictures.

Is this italic sentence grammatical?
 
Don't use keep + -ing in the present perfect, especially if it's continuous. With the present perfect continuous aspect, the sense of repetition that 'keep' brings is already there.

Someone keeps reporting me ...
Someone kept reporting me ...
Someone has been reporting me ...
 
Don't use keep + -ing in the present perfect, especially if it's continuous. With the present perfect continuous aspect, the sense of repetition that 'keep' brings is already there.

Someone keeps reporting me ...
Someone kept reporting me ...
Someone has been reporting me ...
Please allow me to ask you one more question.
Someone kept reporting me to the admins of a social media platform so I have been warned and banned from posting any more pictures.
I notice that in your suggestions, you also used "kept reporting" and my question is:

"Kept" is past tense and suggests a completed action in the past while "have been" indicates an ongoing or recent result of that action. Will these two tenses clash in my sentence and why?
 
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Someone kept reporting me to the admins of a social media platform ...

The past simple tense gives a history of what happened. There's no need for a present tense in this clause.

.... and now I have been warned and banned from posting any more pictures.

This is the present result of what happened, so the present perfect is ideal here.
 
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