# Nice "Report this post" message! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965 "2006-01-14T15:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/1 "2006-01-14T15:16:24Z")
I notice y’all changed the wording at the bottom of the “report this post” form: > [@](#): > > This form is for reporting anything you believe would benefit from the immediate attention of SDMB staff, such as spam, advertising messages, and potential violations of forum and/or board rules. Much less intimidating! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/2 "2006-01-14T15:40:32Z")
What was the old message? I don’t remember it but it didn’t seem intimidating to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ty\_Cobb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ty\_Cobb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ty_Cobb)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/3 "2006-01-14T17:19:54Z")
“Report violators for summary execution!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/4 "2006-01-14T18:04:55Z")
Huh? I see advertising messages on every page. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/5 "2006-01-14T18:16:59Z")
We delete spam, which often contains advertising. TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/6 "2006-01-14T18:26:39Z")
In that case I’ll try to work my 100% guaranteed herbal male enhancement products subtly into the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/7 "2006-01-14T19:47:26Z")
When I saw the title of this thread I thought SDMB members should be alert to _nice_ messages and should alert moderators accordingly: Hey TubaDiva, Q.E.D. says he just discovered the cure for cancer !!! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/8 "2006-01-14T19:48:33Z")
> [@Walter Windchill](#): > > Huh? I see advertising messages on every page. No – for the “report this post” message – if you click the exclamation point symbol at the top right of any post except one of your own, you go to a screen where you can report the post. There’s a box where you type in the reason, and below that the message as I quoted it. It used to be something like “use this ONLY to report evildoing of the most egregious nature,” so people commented from time to time “oh, I didn’t want to use that to just ask them to move a post,” ven though that’s the fastest way to ask a mod to move a post. Thus the new, friendlier message. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/9 "2006-01-15T17:15:53Z")
Great. We’ve been asking for this change since forever. (So why did you slip it in without saying anything?) The new SDMB: All your requests fulfilled, sometime this millennium. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-report-this-post-message/339965/10 "2006-01-15T18:09:00Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > Great. We’ve been asking for this change since forever. (So why did you slip it in without saying anything?) > > The new SDMB: All your requests fulfilled, sometime this millennium. 🙂 Actually, this is evidently an ongoing problem. Every time we upgrade to a newer board version, vB resets to a default and you get the nasty version of the message. Then, sometime later, we realize this and change it to a “friendlier” version. [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336772&highlight=report+post) a thread from September of 2005 where someone noticed the same thing. I assume that when we update the version again, it will revert to a default. Would one of you please email **tubadiva** to reset the message the next time we update vB? Thanks.