# Tried to report a bad post ...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tried-to-report-a-bad-post/417061>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 27, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tried-to-report-a-bad-post/417061 "2007-08-27T06:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tried-to-report-a-bad-post/417061/1 "2007-08-27T06:10:54Z")

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…, clicked on the “report a bad post” link, and got this instead:

> [@](#):
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> Manduck, 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.

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**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:** [August 27, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tried-to-report-a-bad-post/417061/2 "2007-08-27T06:23:13Z")

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Is the post and/or thread still there? If it was for something like a spam thread that has banished to the Forum That We Do Not Speak Of, that’s the message you’ll get.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tried-to-report-a-bad-post/417061/3 "2007-08-27T06:27:58Z")

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[QUOTE=MEBuckner]  
Is the post and/or thread still there? If it was for something like a spam thread that has banished to the Forum That We Do Not Speak Of, that’s the message you’ll get.  
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That’s probably it. It was a pretty obvious spam thread.