# Reporting my own post?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [May 4, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532 "2004-05-04T21:34:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/1 "2004-05-04T21:34:32Z")
Having started a thread without properly reading the stickies in MPSIMS, I was going to report my post and have them close it without too much fuss.
Then I realized there is no little ! button on my posts.
Can we not report our own posts?
I emailed the ever generous Coldfire and Cajun Man about my little gaff and hopefully the offending thread will be soon one for the history books.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/2 "2004-05-04T23:21:33Z")
Yes, I believe this was brought up in one of the bug threads after the upgrade. (No, it’s not really a bug; it’s one of those things that seems like a good idea on paper until it’s actually tried.) The one time I had to deal with it, I waited for the first reply and reported that.
It occurs to me there might be a workaround, though I haven’t tried it. If you hover over the “reply” button (to quote a post), you get the ID number of that single post. It’s the same number as in the “report this post” link. So theoretically, you can click an entirely different “report this post” button, and then change the ID number in the link to the one that shows up when you hover over the “reply” button in your own post, and you’ll thus report your own post even though there’s no “report” button available.
Again, I have no idea whether that would actually work, but it seems reasonable to me. Anybody have occasion to try this, and report a result?
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/3 "2004-05-04T23:28:27Z")
I don’t think that will work.
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/4 "2004-05-04T23:34:54Z")
I remember xash said he tried that once and it didn’t work. I tried it just now on my post above, and it seemed to go through.
Hopefully Tubadiva won’t be bothered by it. I didn’t think it would send in the first place! Maybe she will post in here and let us know she got it.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/5 "2004-05-05T02:47:32Z")
> [@Cervaise](#):
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> It occurs to me there might be a workaround, though I haven’t tried it. If you hover over the “reply” button (to quote a post), you get the ID number of that single post. It’s the same number as in the “report this post” link. So theoretically, you can click an entirely different “report this post” button, and then change the ID number in the link to the one that shows up when you hover over the “reply” button in your own post, and you’ll thus report your own post even though there’s no “report” button available.
I did try this once. Perhaps a Cafe Society moderator could let us know if they received my Report wrt [this _24_ thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=252057)?
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/6 "2004-05-05T03:12:22Z")
Here is the link where xash tried to report himself:
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4500702&postcount=10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4500702&postcount=10)
Didn’t work for him, but his modness might have been the cause.
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### Author:  [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/7 "2004-05-05T06:49:34Z")
> [@Berkut](#):
>
> Here is the link where xash tried to report himself:
> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4500702&postcount=10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4500702&postcount=10)
>
> Didn’t work for him, but his modness might have been the cause.
I tried it again just now, and it’s working. Tuba’s gonna gonna go mad if we keep this going 😃
I reported my own post from GQ and did receive the report immediately with a link to my own post. So, yes, it works now. It didn’t work earlier. Some settings might have been changed since the last time I tried this.
Just some trivia you guys might like… this is what a reported post look like:
> [@](#):
>
> From: Straight Dope Message Board Mailer
> To: \<[xash@ideadutch.com](mailto:xash@ideadutch.com)\>
> Subject: Reported post from Straight Dope Message Board
>
> Message:
>
> xash ( [mailto:xash@ideadutch.com](mailto:xash@ideadutch.com) ) has reported this post:
>
> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=4826492#post4826492](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=4826492#post4826492)
>
> This is part of this thread:
> No headphone jack on TV. How to connect headphones to Speaker Out ?
> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=254423](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=254423)
>
> This is the reason that the user gave:
> This is a test. Please ignore. Reporting own post.
>
> 🙂
>
> -xash.
>
> This message has been sent to all moderators of this forum, or all administrators if there are no moderators.
>
> Please respond to this post as applicable.
Problem is, the report is sent from the SDMB mailer, not from the poster, so sometimes when I intend to reply to the poster, my reply goes to the SDMB mailer instead :smack:
We have to manually copy/paste the poster’s email address in the reply field when replying.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-my-own-post/243532/8 "2004-05-07T18:36:15Z")
> [@xash](#):
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> …when I intend to reply to the poster, my reply goes to the SDMB mailer instead :smack:
>
> We have to manually copy/paste the poster’s email address in the reply field when replying.
Might I say that that reply is appreciated. Over the years, that Report button has sat there menacingly, with red capital text lurking but a click away, but it’s nice to know that if we do use it, Ed Zotti won’t send henchmen to our houses.