# "Reported" or not? I've lost track
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714
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**Created:** [August 24, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714 "2015-08-24T13:18:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/1 "2015-08-24T13:18:46Z")
If someone posts spam on the SDMB, and we report it, are we supposed to type a “Reported” post? Or not? I’ve completely lost track of what the preference is.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/2 "2015-08-24T13:22:03Z")
Last I knew, the convention was for the first person to report it to post that they’ve done so, so that everyone else knows they don’t need to.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/3 "2015-08-24T13:22:22Z")
Reporting coach here.
Yes.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/4 "2015-08-24T13:33:01Z")
I don’t think you’re “supposed” to, per se, but it’s good manners so that the mods don’t get flooded with reports. Certainly not against the rules.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/5 "2015-08-24T13:33:30Z")
That’s usually been the way I’ve done it for spam or clearly wrong forum at least.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/6 "2015-08-24T13:36:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Reporting coach here.
> Yes.
Yes, it’s helpful to post “reported” when reporting spam. Otherwise we may receive a dozen reports of the same post. (This is not to deter people from reporting spam, just to indicate that it is helpful to let people know that you have reported it.)
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/7 "2015-08-24T13:40:24Z")
Cool. Thanks. I’d had the idea that it was considered “fightin’ words” or something. I appreciate the info.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/8 "2015-08-24T13:41:29Z")
It would definitely be fightin’ words if you were doing it in a thread made by an established poster.
Spammers don’t come back to their threads, though.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/9 "2015-08-24T13:44:18Z")
I’ve kind of given up on doing it…half the time by the time my 60 second wait from the report itself is up, the thread’s already been disappeared…
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/10 "2015-08-24T13:49:07Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> I’ve kind of given up on doing it…half the time by the time my 60 second wait from the report itself is up, the thread’s already been disappeared…
Post first then report, no delay.
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### Author:  [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/11 "2015-08-24T14:29:35Z")
reported
I see, if you report first, then you have to wait 60 seconds to post. I never knew that.
Thanks.
In essence, if you post in a thread, you can report it with no delay.
If you report, then post you reported, 60 second delay.
( I actually just tested that out)
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/12 "2015-08-24T14:42:33Z")
> [@Fenris](#):
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> Cool. Thanks. I’d had the idea that it was considered “fightin’ words” or something. I appreciate the info.
I’ve tried to switch to “Spam reported” so that when the offending post is deleted, if the mods don’t delete my reported post as well, the erstwhile previous poster doesn’t think I’m insulting them.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/13 "2015-08-24T14:44:56Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> I’ve tried to switch to “Spam reported” so that when the offending post is deleted, if the mods don’t delete my reported post as well, the erstwhile previous poster doesn’t think I’m insulting them.
I also include the spammer’s username in parentheses just to be sure.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/14 "2015-08-24T14:57:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> I don’t think you’re “supposed” to, per se, but it’s good manners so that the mods don’t get flooded with reports. Certainly not against the rules.
But it makes the mods feel the love when their mailboxes are overflowing with mail.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/15 "2015-08-24T15:03:16Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> I’ve tried to switch to “Spam reported” so that when the offending post is deleted, if the mods don’t delete my reported post as well, the erstwhile previous poster doesn’t think I’m insulting them.
Ah, a reporting artist.
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### Author:  [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/16 "2015-08-24T15:06:42Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> It would definitely be fightin’ words if you were doing it in a thread made by an established poster.
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> Spammers don’t come back to their threads, though.
Indeed.
I’ve seen some low effort (as in, two words and a link) posts that triggered my spam sense, and I posted something along the lines of “Looks like an account might have been hacked for spam purposes”, and people still upset about it. But I’d rather play it safe than have spam on the board.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/17 "2015-08-24T16:11:50Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> I’ve tried to switch to “Spam reported” so that when the offending post is deleted, if the mods don’t delete my reported post as well, the erstwhile previous poster doesn’t think I’m insulting them.
We usually delete the “reported” posts as well, so it normally doesn’t matter ( **running coach** would probably have thousands more posts if we didn’t.)
Spam is usually so obvious that we get very few mistaken reports of spam. On rare occasions a genuine newbie will come in and post something that looks like spam.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/18 "2015-08-24T16:25:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> It would definitely be fightin’ words if you were doing it in a thread made by an established poster.
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> Spammers don’t come back to their threads, though.
We should encourage all good citizen Dopers to beat the shit out of spammers, wherever they may be.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/19 "2015-08-24T16:31:44Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> wherever they may be.
Bangladesh.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-or-not-ive-lost-track/728714/20 "2015-08-24T18:27:10Z")
> [@Fenris](#):
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> Cool. Thanks. I’d had the idea that it was considered “fightin’ words” or something. I appreciate the info.
Sirrah! Are you desirous of fisticuffs?
😉
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