# (Mods?)Proper Board etiquette after mis-reporting a post **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 16, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638 "2015-06-16T01:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/1 "2015-06-16T01:25:09Z")
So, I recently reported a post thinking the thread was in GD, where I thought the post was inappropriate. After reporting it, I realized that it was actually in the Pit, where almost nothing is inappropriate. What’s proper etiquette in this case? Re-reporting it saying “Never mind, I are duh moron,” E-mailing a mod saying “Never mind, I are duh moron,” or just forgetting it ever happened. Just curious - DESK ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/2 "2015-06-16T01:33:52Z")
Don’t sweat it. We can see the times when posts are made and reported and when threads are moved. (You might have reported it, appropriately, in Forum A, only to discover that it had been moved before you exited the thread.) If it will make you feel better to acknowledge that a Report was not needed or in error, feel free to re-report it. However, if you report it from its new forum, the Mods, there, are unlikely to understand why you are apologizing, since they never saw the first report. We get enough Reports that we do not spend a lot of time worrying over whether we should be upset with the Reporting poster. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/3 "2015-06-16T01:38:28Z")
Back in the day, **Gfactor** sent me a reply saying “Uh, this is the Pit” or similar, but funnier. Did you get a reply like that? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/4 "2015-06-16T01:45:02Z")
I did the same thing recently. All I got was a long, cold, glaring silence. Or you could say that nothing happened. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/5 "2015-06-16T01:48:21Z")
Personally, I’d report it again and say “Sorry, I didn’t realize this was in the pit, don’t worry about it”. All the mods that got the first report will get the second one and not worry about it. I know they get an email, I have no idea, though, if something shows up on their screen when they log in or in User CP, so if they pick through each report one at a time, that might be different. But that’s what I’d do (but then a thread has to be so incredibly over the line for me to report it, I can’t imagine being wrong about it). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/6 "2015-06-16T02:23:40Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Personally, I’d report it again and say “Sorry, I didn’t realize this was in the pit, don’t worry about it”. > All the mods that got the first report will get the second one and not worry about it. The reports go to the Mods of the forum in which the thread sits at the time it was reported: Poster enters a thread in Forum A at 7:55. Poster reports a post in that thread at 7:58. Thread is moved to Forum B at 8:00. Poster finishes reading thread and exits the thread at 8:05, noticing that the thread is now in Forum B. If the poster submits a new Report, it will be seen only by the Mods in Forum B. (Obviously, if the thread was never moved and the poster simply did not realize what forum he or she was reading, submitting a follow-up report will go to the same Mods, since the thread is in the same forum.) ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/7 "2015-06-16T02:39:27Z")
Eh, sounds like the best thing to do is just forget it and live with my secret shame. I’ll add it to the list right above not using the :smack: smilie in the OP. Thanks - DESK ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/8 "2015-06-16T02:52:16Z")
Yes - secret shame. I have a few of those too. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/9 "2015-06-16T03:04:28Z")
> [@D.E.S.K.Top668](#): > > Eh, sounds like the best thing to do is just forget it and live with my secret shame. > I’ll add it to the list right above not using the :smack: smilie in the OP. Remember, no matter how stupid your report, it’s not the stupidest one we’ve ever seen.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/10 "2015-06-16T03:28:07Z")
Share? ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/11 "2015-06-16T03:32:41Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Remember, no matter how stupid your report, it’s not the stupidest one we’ve ever seen.😉 And this is not the stupidest mod response I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/12 "2015-06-16T04:36:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Remember, no matter how stupid your report, it’s not the stupidest one we’ve ever seen.😉 That’s still mine, right? Hey - I need some claim to fame here! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/13 "2015-06-16T19:11:58Z")
Man, don’t sweat it. _I’ve_ misreported posts when I forgot I was reading a Pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/14 "2015-06-16T21:27:32Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Man, don’t sweat it. _I’ve_ misreported posts when I forgot I was reading a Pit thread. Did you reply to yourself as a mod? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-proper-board-etiquette-after-mis-reporting-a-post/722638/15 "2015-06-16T22:26:22Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Did you reply to yourself as a mod? Yeah, and I was a real dick about it, too. I don’t think there was any call for me to be that condescending to myself when I’d made such a trivial error, but I guess I didn’t see it that way. I thought about bringing it to ATMB, but I knew I’d just circle the wagons against myself, so I didn’t bother.