# Could you allow us to report our own posts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731
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**Created:** [July 15, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731 "2005-07-15T22:59:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/1 "2005-07-15T22:59:46Z")
We are allowed to report on all posts but our own. Unfortunetly I sometimes would like to report my own messages when I make some sort of egregious error that I need a mod to correct. One time, while I left the browser open and had a couple of drunken friends over, an idiot friend of my posted a bunch of stupid crap that I did not find out about untill later, I ended up “reporting” the post just below mine to get the attention of the mods. In fact, probably due to the great community we have here, I have needed to report on my own posts more often than I have those of others.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/2 "2005-07-15T23:02:57Z")
The staff has said a few times that reporting the post directly above/below your post is what you should do, and also to make sure it’s clear when you submit the reason for reporting. This leads me to beleive that it’s not a decision made by the staff, but a vB quirk that doesn’t allow us to report our own posts.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/3 "2005-07-15T23:31:28Z")
It’s a vB bug. We’d prefer it if you COULD report your own posts.
your humble TubaDiva
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/4 "2005-07-15T23:59:36Z")
Ah, thanks for the timely response.
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/5 "2005-07-17T09:36:36Z")
So why has it taken over a year to fix? It seems like a pretty glaring oversight to me
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2005, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/6 "2005-07-17T09:41:02Z")
Okay, after digging around a bit, it turns out it’s a feature, not a bug. But you can get around it with a relatively trivial modification detailed [here](http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=483371#post483371).
I understand that the admin is leery of mucking with the code behind the scenes but this is only one like of a text file and all you need to do to revert the change is to make a backup file and switch it back with the original. IMHO, this is a fairly annoying feature and it’s come up often enough that something should be done about it.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-allow-us-to-report-our-own-posts/312731/7 "2005-07-18T14:36:44Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> Okay, after digging around a bit, it turns out it’s a feature, not a bug. But you can get around it with a relatively trivial modification detailed [here](http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=483371#post483371).
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> I understand that the admin is leery of mucking with the code behind the scenes but this is only one like of a text file and all you need to do to revert the change is to make a backup file and switch it back with the original. IMHO, this is a fairly annoying feature and it’s come up often enough that something should be done about it.
I’ll mention this to Jerry, this is not our jurisdiction.
your humble TubaDiva