# Reporting/Reported

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-reported/768745>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 16, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-reported/768745 "2016-10-16T17:28:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-reported/768745/22 "2016-10-17T14:28:48Z")

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From the POV of SDMB the software is an off-the-shelf product. Just like Office is to you.

Whether the vendor employed different people as designers, developers, or testers is immaterial from the customer’s POV. It does what it does for whatever reasons, good or bad, deliberate or inadvertent, that the vendor as a single entity ended up using.

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-reported/768745/23 "2016-10-17T15:53:58Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Yeah well someone should tell that software programmer that he or she did it wrong.
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> (Your answer amounts to “The guy who wrote the program is the guy who designed the software.” A bit of a tautology, no?)

V’ger is that which seeks The Creator.

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**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-reported/768745/24 "2016-10-17T16:31:06Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> Clicking the report button doesn’t count as making a post, but submitting a report does. And if I type “reported” at the bottom of a spam post and write “spam” in the report and submit it five seconds later, it still doesn’t trigger the 60 second delay. So, to echo **jz78818** , why not?

Submitting a report counts as a post. However, the report button doesn’t include the validation to check if you’ve posted within the last 60 seconds. That’s why it works to post first and report immediately after, but not vice versa.

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