# FYI, You Can Report Your Own Posts Now **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 26, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554 "2010-01-26T20:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/1 "2010-01-26T20:11:49Z")
For all you folks who “ask a passing mod” to fix, move, close, etc. your post or thread, you will get quicker attention by simply using the red triangle to send a report with whatever your requests, demands, lamentations, etc. may be. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/2 "2010-01-26T20:19:35Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/3 "2010-01-26T20:20:24Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Reported. I’ll bet you don’t know why, though. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/4 "2010-01-26T20:25:54Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > I’ll bet you don’t know why, though. I reported my own post for being nothing but a tired, overused joke and demanding that I be punished. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/5 "2010-01-26T20:26:08Z")
Your thread title is inaccurate, you’ve been able to report your own posts for as long as I’ve been here. I’m reporting your ass for misrepresentation! Also for you having the gall to suggest people actually use the report button! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/6 "2010-01-26T20:29:41Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Your thread title is inaccurate, you’ve been able to report your own posts for as long as I’ve been here. At the risk of taking a joke seriously, before the upgrade in summer 2008, you couldn’t report your own posts. Many posters are used to the old system and don’t realize you can do it now. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/7 "2010-01-26T20:32:05Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I reported my own post for being nothing but a tired, overused joke and demanding that I be punished. Punishment on demand? Sounds like a new pay feature to me, but you’re going to need a password _and_ a safeword. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/8 "2010-01-26T20:33:16Z")
I figured this out in 2009. I figure you need test stuff for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/9 "2010-01-26T20:37:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Punishment on demand? Sounds like a new pay feature to me, but you’re going to need a password _and_ a safeword. No problem, we can use my usual safeword (“Don’t stop!”). Let me know when it’s all set up – I just ordered a little USB device that let’s people remotely deliver an electric shock to, um, a certain area. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/10 "2010-01-26T20:39:56Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > No problem, we can use my usual safeword (“Don’t stop!”). Let me know when it’s all set up – I just ordered a little USB device that let’s people remotely deliver an electric shock to, um, a certain area. You know, the _big_ USB device is only $12 more. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/11 "2010-01-26T20:57:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You know, the _big_ USB device is only $12 more. > Just sayin’. Irrelevant. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/12 "2010-01-26T21:01:06Z")
_ATMB/TMI_-The Series. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/13 "2010-01-26T21:06:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _ATMB/TMI_-The Series. That’s what I get for trying to be helpful. No good turn goes unstoned, or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/14 "2010-01-26T22:42:14Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > No good turn goes unstoned, or something like that. It’s okay to report a stoned tern. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/15 "2010-01-26T22:44:27Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:14, topic:526554”] It’s okay to report a stoned tern. [/QUOTE] What about a stern tone? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-you-can-report-your-own-posts-now/526554/16 "2010-01-27T05:19:21Z")
You use the stern tone when reporting the stoned tern (or was it a rock gull?).