# Reporting myself
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [November 24, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552 "2004-11-24T23:18:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/1 "2004-11-24T23:18:22Z")
I’ve just posted a new thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5536068#post5536068](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5536068#post5536068) but on re-reading, the second sentence seems a mite trollish. My apologies. Could some kind mod please delete that second sentence?
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/2 "2004-11-25T01:35:00Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=5536068](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=5536068)
You can use that link to report it yourself. Probably get their attention more quickly.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/3 "2004-11-25T02:16:49Z")
Unless your sentence has already been deleted, I see nothing trollish in that question.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/4 "2004-11-25T08:47:43Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> I’ve just posted a new thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5536068#post5536068](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5536068#post5536068) but on re-reading, the second sentence seems a mite trollish. My apologies. Could some kind mod please delete that second sentence?
Naah, it’s not so bad.
Some of them ARE moonbats, you know; just who is, well, that might be where your mileage may vary.
My question is with your first sentence. What’s the difference between a Leftie and a Dem? Seems sorta, well, redundant, especially these days. 🙂
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Registered Independent and grateful for it.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/5 "2004-11-25T16:28:38Z")
> [@Berkut](#):
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=5536068](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=5536068)
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> You can use that link to report it yourself. Probably get their attention more quickly.
This is a good way to get Mod attention. Only the Report This Post exclamation point doesn’t show up on your own posts.
Meaning you can’t report your own posts. I have used the exclamation point of the poster directly over my post and explained it was my post I was talking about in the message part of Report This Post bobarooni.
Have I made myself clear?
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/6 "2004-11-25T16:50:20Z")
The other choice we all have is e-mailing the appropriate mod directly. Their names are at the bottom of each forum. They don’t normally bite _that_ hard.
And I’ve been told that putting an subject line like “SDMB: Dear mod I’m a doofus” gets better results than “Bi sexual financial advice Rolex cheap Viagra loans” 😉
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-myself/276552/7 "2004-11-26T06:00:23Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> This is a good way to get Mod attention. Only the Report This Post exclamation point doesn’t show up on your own posts.
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> Meaning you can’t report your own posts.
Actually, you can report your own posts.
The Report link ([!]) is not displayed for your own posts, but it still works just fine if you know and manually enter the correct URL. In this case, I provided it for him. The option isn’t offered up front, but it’s not disabled.