# Report this post to a moderator! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 1, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592 "2002-09-01T19:33:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/1 "2002-09-01T19:33:07Z")
Go ahead, I dare ya! Just kidding. Looking for clarification: This morning in a fit of lazy, I used the “report this post” to ask that the Las Vegas thread be closed, since another had been opened and I didn’t want people to get all confused. I did this because sometimes even clicking on the mods name to get the e-mail addy and such takes eons on here, and it seemed a quicker, more efficient way to do this. It says right on it to use that function for spamming, rule breaking types of posts. I used it assuming it does the same thing that that function does on other message boards- sends e-mail to the mod/mods of that forum. Did I do bad? If so, will I get a good, hard spanking for it? Breathlessly awaiting a reply, Zette ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/2 "2002-09-01T20:46:50Z")
As I recall, the last time this came up, the consensus seemed to be that the “spam and trolling” verbage was standard vBulletin boilerplate that nobody’s bothered to change yet, and that the mods didn’t mind it any more than any other sort of e-mail. But wait for a mod to say so, too. And if it makes you feel any better about it, I’ll spank you for it anyway. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/3 "2002-09-02T10:27:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > **Did I do bad? If so, will I get a good, hard spanking for it?** Sounds to me like you might have done it with this in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/4 "2002-09-02T12:03:44Z")
I was gonna reply to you per e-mail, but forgot. Yeah, you did well, and there shall be no spanking. Using the “Report this post to a moderator” function is preferable in 99% of all cases, because:[ul][_]It’s just one hit on the server to collect all relevant e-mail addresses;[_]All the moderators for the relevant forum are informed immediately;It ensures a link to the offending post and thread. We can do without the first, but in regular e-mail, people tend to forget the latter about 30% of the time, resulting in a thread hunt. _“Could you please fix my vB code in that one thread in MPSIMS?”_ doesn’t really help me out, you see.[/ul]So, in short, by all means, use the “Report this post to a moderator” function. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/5 "2002-09-02T14:04:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, you did well, and there shall be no spanking. ☹ Thanks for the reply, anyway- I appreciate it! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/6 "2002-09-04T14:19:43Z")
Hell, let’s all spank her anyway. No sense on letting a good question go unrewarded. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-this-post-to-a-moderator/126592/7 "2002-09-04T18:30:12Z")
Maybe Zette is really Zoot! (Monty Python/Holy Grail reference!)