# Grammar police, please look.

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**Created:** [June 20, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-police-please-look/23051 "2000-06-20T23:54:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-police-please-look/23051/1 "2000-06-20T23:54:31Z")

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From the minds of the SDMB, on the sign-in page;  
“If you are trying to post, to administrator may have disable your account, or it may be awaiting moderation.”

What’s up with that? 🙂  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-police-please-look/23051/2 "2000-06-21T00:05:32Z")

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Well, not really. But the software came together _very_ quickly, and niceties such as proper grammar in the various texts had to give way to things like “does the software work.” I have confidence that they’ll fix stuff like this in future versions, but as you can doubtless imagine, we’ve got a little list of stuff for them to do before we want them to pay attention to this issue.

And _we_ sure ain’t gonna hack the software! Besides, if we did, we’d change some other stuff first. For example, I can live with “Thank you for your post, manhattan, we are now returning you to the forum listing” I can live with, but “Thank you for moving the thread?” Syrup.