# An Interesting Glitch...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-glitch/153481>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-glitch/153481 "2003-02-07T15:55:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-glitch/153481/1 "2003-02-07T15:55:22Z")

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Several times lately, I’ve had occasion to report an OP to the moderators of a given forum as spam. Up until today, sending that message returned me to the forum menu as is supposed to happen.

Today I did such a report, and got the warning that I was attempting to access an area that I did not have permissions for, I’d presume the moderators’ forum. Any clues why it might be doing this?

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-glitch/153481/2 "2003-02-07T16:00:09Z")

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What basically happened was that at the same time you were reporting the thread, the thread was already going bye-bye. You get some interesting effects when people report threads at the same moment those threads are being… ah… dealt with.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-glitch/153481/3 "2003-02-07T16:44:58Z")

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**MEB** - you forgot to say “Bwahahahaha!”

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-glitch/153481/4 "2003-02-07T17:34:39Z")

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Well, I’d already said _that_ as I was “taking care of” the thread.