Report abuse option for your own comments?? What??

My understanding is that option was put there about a year or so ago because many experience internet lag here on myLot and there are times we can tend to put double posts. Using the report is not only for abuse, you see I have too experienced at time my own posts being double posted and from what I understand years ago many had to pm each other to tell others to report the double posting and it became a large request that we can report our own. There are some that at times accidentally post the wrong response to a discussion and will tell admin with the (!) to remove it for them, I think that is helpful as it may then become a misunderstanding amongst readers if the wrong post is placed. There is no issue with reporting our own double posting and in fact I prefer to report my own because this way it is not looked upon as if I were trying to do it intentionally. That really is the reason why many requested the feature not really to tell admin we are abusing. Unless of course someone rethought their post later, would be my guess.

We report abuse whenever we encounter abusive comments on our discussions. Much more , we could also be reported if we abuse on our responses to others' discussions. That way, abuse is prevented here at Mylot.

sketch I will answer that easily.I just responded to a discusson and some glitch made two copies of my one response. so I just hit the exclamation point to report a glitch made me two copies so please delete the one thanks as I do not want any one to comment and lose their comment because I have a duplicate copy I never wanted to make thanks. thats why the exclamation point on our own post.glitcheslike that happen and that is how you get rid of a copy y ou never wanted to have.

Because there have been some cases where people got nasty or very weird. It is not for you to report yourself but other members! I think everyone has an opinion as to what is abusive, unappropriate, weird, etc. And that is where the button comes in. I have only had to use it once.

What I think they are for is that if you post a response accidently more than once and if you do not like you response after posting on a discussion you could report it your self and asked it to be deleted I once posted the same response twice and reported it and said that it should be deleted because I had posted it twice and the next day it was deleted.

I don't know the exact reason why it's there but I have used it once. I posted something and forgot to add a link to it which was very important and since we can't delete nor edit our posts, I reported it. That may be a reason as to why we could report our comments. Happ myLotting!

I’ve reported my own posts on a couple of times when I inadvertently posted the same post twice. I reported the problem and admin promptly removed it. I believe that is the idea of self-reporting...