# No self reporting of posts? Just wondering why. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 7, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141 "2005-10-07T03:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/1 "2005-10-07T03:09:10Z")
Not a rant, but it deals with administration of the boards, so here it is. In [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6660698#post6660698) thread I messed up the coding for links. Yes I know preview is my friend. Back off. šŸ˜› So I was left to the mercy of thread readers to report the coding problem for a fix to clean it up a bit. Hereā€™s what Iā€™d like to know. Why canā€™t we report a post we made? I understand why a poster canā€™t go back and self-edit a post. Itā€™s obvious in how this board works. What Iā€™d like to know is why I canā€™t report my own post if thereā€™s a fix requested? Sure, I could e-mail a mod for a fix request, but who do I e-mail? I could pick one from the listed mods, but what if theyā€™re not around for a few days? Do I send mails to all of them? Seemswrong somehow to flood everyoneā€™s inboxes for such a minor issue. Iā€™m assuming (and this is where I always go wrong) that reporting a post goes into a central location that any mod can respond to. Kind of a clearinghouse versus individual requests. So what is the deal with not being able to report your own post? Itā€™s still up to the mods whether or not any change is made to the post. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/2 "2005-10-07T03:17:07Z")
There are two ways you can report your own post. You can report an adjacent post by another poster and indicate in your report that you are actually reporting your own post above (or below, as the case may be) or you can copy and paste the Report Post URL into your browser address bar: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=xxxxxxx](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=xxxxxxx) ā€¦and replace xxxxxxx with your postā€™s PostID, then hit \. To get your postā€™s PostID, you can hover your cursor over the post number in the upper right corner and look at the Status Bar. The first way is easier. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/3 "2005-10-07T03:23:18Z")
I assume thatā€™s just how the software works out of the box. Since it lets people edit their posts by default, the assumption probaby was that no one would need to report their own post, they could just fix whatever it was by themselves. Shortsighted, I think, but not something the SDMB can fix itself. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/4 "2005-10-07T04:47:35Z")
Maybe they should consider letting us edit, at least for a certain amount of time? (Say, a half an hour?) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/5 "2005-10-07T05:26:22Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Maybe they should consider letting us edit, at least for a certain amount of time? (Say, a half an hour?) No way. You said it, you eat it. **duffer**. Others have told you how to report your own post. Itā€™s not like youā€™ll die trying to work around having a one-click ability. I just corrected your thread, I think. Please go back and look. If I screwed up, email me and Iā€™ll do it again. The mods on this board actually have real livesā€¦well, some of us. We get to it when we can. **samclem** GQ mod. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/6 "2005-10-07T06:16:36Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > There are two ways you can report your own post. You can report an adjacent post by another poster and indicate in your report that you are actually reporting your own post above (or below, as the case may be) or you can copy and paste the Report Post URL into your browser address bar: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=xxxxxxx](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=xxxxxxx) > > ā€¦and replace xxxxxxx with your postā€™s PostID, then hit \. To get your postā€™s PostID, you can hover your cursor over the post number in the upper right corner and look at the Status Bar. The first way is easier. When a post gets reported, does it go in that posterā€™s ā€œpermanent recordā€? (Yes, Iā€™m serious. I clearly remember a mod saying that they keep a record of all the bad things people do.) I mean, even if the mods decide the post is okay, does it still get recorded that SOMEONE thought it needed to be reported? If so, this isnā€™t a good idea, although it hardly matters, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/7 "2005-10-07T12:45:23Z")
Thatā€™s not what was said. Warnings go on ā€œrecordā€. Thereā€™s no reason to put reported posts on record, when it might simply be a report of ā€œWrong forum, oopsā€. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-self-reporting-of-posts-just-wondering-why/325141/8 "2005-10-07T13:01:31Z")
The previous incarnation of the board software did allow users to report their own posts; not that Iā€™m complaining, just a data point, is all. I suspect itā€™s a configurable thing where the default setting has changed from one version to the next.