# What does that message mean when we post? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 20, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727 "2001-09-20T02:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727/1 "2001-09-20T02:39:53Z")
I’m talking about that message that comes up right after you submit a post. Here it is, in all its confusing detail, **"Thank you for posting CnoteChris. You will be taken to your post. If the Administrator has selected to moderate all posts in this forum, you will be taken back to the forum and your post will be displayed presently."** What the hell does that mean? Where would I be headed if the Administrator decided not to moderate this board? [Porn.com](http://Porn.com)? That’d be nice, but hey, where else am I headed? Of course I’m going back to where I posted. Right? Is that the most confusing thing I’ve read yet? Or is my _own_ writing style growing so much on me, that I find perfect grammar completely incomprehensible? [Edited by bibliophage on 09-19-2001 at 11:14 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727/2 "2001-09-20T02:48:57Z")
Seems obvious and logical to me. You’ll be taken to your post at the end of the thread, unless the mods have decided to review each post before tacking it onto the thread (which I don’t think they ever do), and if they did do that, you’ll get taken to the forum you were posting in, and your post will appear by and by. I guess it’s just you 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727/3 "2001-09-20T04:20:53Z")
I believe that vBulletin has a feature that would allow us view and edit posts before they’re displayed, but that function is always turned off on the SDMB. If it were turned on, I suspect you’d be taken back to the thread _sans_ your post, or to the forum. You might learn more about it if you poke around at The vBulletin forum, [http://www.vbulletin.com/forum](http://www.vbulletin.com/forum) ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727/4 "2001-09-20T13:08:06Z")
Well that’s no fun, **bibliophage**. Sure, I could go over to vBulletin and get an answer. But I want to ruminate and stew over this until I come up with an answer that makes me feel good. I don’t want facts getting in the way of that. Besides, I doubt I’d understand the answer they’d give me anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727/5 "2001-09-23T22:50:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\*Seems obvious and logical to me. You’ll be taken to your post at the end of the thread, unless the mods have decided to review each post before tacking it onto the thread (which I don’t think they ever do), and if they did do that, you’ll get taken to the forum you were posting in, and your post will appear by and by. > > I guess it’s just you 😃 \*\* **CnoteChris** , I think your confusion was generated by the use of the word “presently”, which some people interpret as “right away”, but which really means something more like “pretty soon, but right now”. The message, I’m guessing, is given so that you don’t end up double-posting when you get back to the thread and find that your post isn’t there yet. -Sue ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-that-message-mean-when-we-post/82727/6 "2001-09-24T03:34:59Z")
Whatever it means, it is better than a blank screen that would confuse most people.