# This is...surprising **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754 "2014-01-14T03:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/1 "2014-01-14T03:00:36Z")
So, there’s a thread by that title in the BBQ Pit, but if I click on it, I’m told: > [@](#): > > **John Mace** , you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: > > Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else’s post, access administrative features or some other privileged system? > > If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation. What’s so special about this thread? Why not just lock it or delete it, if the mods don’t want us to access it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/2 "2014-01-14T03:02:42Z")
I would tell you, but I’ve been warned not to. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/3 "2014-01-14T03:05:34Z")
A mod forgot to delete the move notice for the thread (presumably deleted for legitimate reasons, or illegitimate reasons when it involves sheep). ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/4 "2014-01-14T03:09:04Z")
In addition to what **duckster** said, the mods don’t like deleting stuff, so they [del]stick it where the sun don’t shine[/del] move it to somewhere inaccessible to mere mortals. Hence the error message. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/5 "2014-01-14T03:09:39Z")
It was probably deleted/moved to the cornfield since you loaded the page that contained the tread title. I’d bet that if you went back to the pit it’s not there anymore (or is there and you can access it just fine. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/6 "2014-01-14T03:10:24Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > So, there’s a thread by that title in the BBQ Pit, but if I click on it, I’m told: > > What’s so special about this thread? Why not just lock it or delete it, if the mods don’t want us to access it. I think the thing most people want to know at this point is: was that surprising? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-surprising/678754/7 "2014-01-14T03:15:16Z")
It was supposed to be disappeared entirely, as others have already answered, but the redirect was forgotten about. And in these cases (when a topic is moved out of members view, whether the redirect is still there or if it’s just remembered to exist by someone) we really ask that you PM a staff member rather than start an ATMB topic, so I’m going to close this one now.