# restricted thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251 "2003-02-20T01:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/1 "2003-02-20T01:32:41Z")
I was browsing General Questions earlier today, and I clicked on a thread that led me to a “You do not have permission to view this page” page (obviously generated by vBulletin, not some sort of proxy error or anything like that). I can’t remember what the thread title was, and when I go back to the General Questions page, I don’t see a thread with that ID (based on hovering over the thread links and looking at the threadid parameter). What’s special about this thread? Just curious… [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164050](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164050) ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/2 "2003-02-20T02:07:24Z")
It was probably moved to a forum that you do not have access to. Sometimes troublesome threads are moved out of public view rather than deleted. It was probably moved between the time you saw it on the list, and clicked on it. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/3 "2003-02-20T03:36:50Z")
Wacky. I didn’t realize that there _were_ other forums. I take it they’re hidden to everyone except moderators and/or administrators? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/4 "2003-02-20T03:49:46Z")
Regular members have access to the nine forums that you see on the front page. Moderators and Administrators have access to at least one more. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/5 "2003-02-20T08:22:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*Regular members have access to the nine forums that you see on the front page. Moderators and Administrators have access to at least one more. \*\* …and right now, they’re contemplating what to do about this breach of security, much like when the lost hikers in the jungle stumble upon a giant, nameless concrete structure, and they knock on the door to ask for a map. For your own safety, when browsing the SDMB, do not look directly at the screen until it is determined that the super-secret ModRay is not screaming out of your monitor, looking to latch onto the nearest human retina and burn the initials “CA” into it. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/6 "2003-02-20T16:59:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Regular members have access to the nine forums that you see on the front page. Moderators and Administrators have access to at least one more. One more forum? Hell, we have access to a whole other world wide web that none of you are privy to. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/7 "2003-02-20T21:28:56Z")
Well I _did_ say “at least”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/8 "2003-02-20T22:29:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > One more forum? Hell, we have access to a whole other world wide web that none of you are privy to. Yeah, we can access pictures of women who are, like, _completely naked!_ ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/9 "2003-02-20T23:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*One more forum? Hell, we have access to a whole other world wide web that none of you are privy to. \*\* **UncleBeer** , that was horribly cruel. Waaaah! ☹ I want to see it _all_ - no fair, no fair! People like me can _die_ from unsatisfied curiosity, you know! It eats away at us until it turns our bones to jelly and our brains to . . . uh . . . more jelly. No, worse - jelly mush. Can you imagine anything more pathetic than mushed jelly? Cruel, cruel man, to tease like that. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/10 "2003-02-21T01:57:45Z")
Do you **really** want to see a forum full of locked threads (so you can’t comment to them), each ending with either a flame war or the meltdown of a member? I have access to one of those on another board; it’s depressing! Now the private moderators’ forum, where they discuss us behind our backs – **that** one I’d like to see! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/11 "2003-02-21T02:35:23Z")
Well, apply to become a mod then, Poly. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/12 "2003-02-21T03:12:21Z")
\<\< Now the private moderators’ forum, where they discuss us behind our backs – that one I’d like to see! \>\> We don’t discuss **you**. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/13 "2003-02-24T20:40:03Z")
Weird. I just did a search for threads I’ve participated in in the past month (exact name = “ntucker”, within last month, any forum), and this thread showed up, with the last poster listed as “yummy-juice\_25” on 02-22-2003 at 05:46 AM (PST), but when I opened the thread, there was no such post. What’s that about? ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/14 "2003-02-24T20:43:03Z")
And, of course, I unwittingly destroyed the reproducibility of this phenomenon by posting to this thread. Oops. Regardless, a search for posts by user “yummy-juice\_25” turns up nothing. Maybe this was an obviously abusive new user who was simply wiped out without a trace, rather than converted to “banned” status… ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/15 "2003-02-24T22:20:49Z")
Sigh. See [What’s up with yummy-juice\_25?"](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164890). Basically, **yummy** was a spammer (or, to be more precise, a spamming 'bot) that posted a porn link in around two dozen threads. We banned the ID and deleted all its posts in a mass delete, which has the awkward side effect that his name (may it be cursed through all eternity) still appears as “last poster” but the post has been vanished. ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restricted-thread/156251/16 "2003-02-26T07:06:26Z")
I remember that before the upgrade, there were also a number of “zombie” forums that had a few posts that were viewable (I think most were just HTML tests and the like), but nothing could be done there. Several of these forums existed, and were exactly identical. Spooky!