# Why can't I access this page?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [August 29, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134 "2004-08-29T22:39:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134/1 "2004-08-29T22:39:08Z")
Why can’t I access this [page](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273588&goto=newpost)?
It is titled Why are people mean to each other? I was getting emails for new posts, and when I click on the most recent one it takes me to a page that says I am not allowed access. What happened?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134/2 "2004-08-29T22:46:09Z")
I saw the thread earlier, and it was by a poster who was subsequently banned. Maybe it’s been deleted?
Contributing to the confusion, the ‘subscribe’ mailing function seems to be duplicating its output this evening. So maybe you’re just getting ghost reply mails.
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134/3 "2004-08-29T22:51:40Z")
> [@jjimm](#):
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> I saw the thread earlier, and it was by a poster who was subsequently banned. Maybe it’s been deleted?
Often when threads are started by trolls or socks, if the mods need to keep it around for “evidence,” so to speak, they’ll move it to (one of) the moderator- (or admin-) only thread(s). Since these are inaccessible by regular members, the link results in that page.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134/4 "2004-08-29T22:57:12Z")
Now I’m an admin over at NADS, I reckon that explanation makes total sense.
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### Author:  [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134/5 "2004-08-29T23:00:22Z")
Mmmm. So someone said something nasty? From when I last checked it there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with what people were posting.
Curiosity is killing this cow.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-access-this-page/262134/6 "2004-08-29T23:03:07Z")
Not what was said, but who said it.
IMO it was prolly a bannee returning as a sock.