Thread: Deleting threads

Originally Posted by dogfish

damn it, cheese!



how did i know you were gonna ask me that?

i don't know. . . i don't have any big, long-winded explanation. . . it's just what i think. . . your creation, your right to delete it. . . . there have been several times over the years where i've spent a considerable amount of time writing an opening post for a thread, and knuckleheads have turned it into shit either by posting a bunch of lame jokes, or by getting into an off-topic pissing match/flame war. . . in that circumstance, i feel like i should reserve the right to delete it rather than having to hope the mods will do so. . .

Why hope when you can just ask them to? Or ask them to actually mod the thread to a higher standard?

I guess I really fall on the side of rarely, if ever, deleting threads. Even as a mod, I don't want to delete threads because I feel they are common property of the board. If someone is breaking the rules, or the thread itself violates the rules, that's one thing. But a bad trade rumor that has two pages of responses already in a few minutes? That should never be deleted. It's the offseason. It's FULL of bad trade rumors. Who cares? If it's really a problem, the thread can be locked with an explanation. That way there's complete transparency.

Another power play.

Originally Posted by DallasChief

Another power play.

Oooo....did get the 4x multiplier?

Originally Posted by frauschieze

Why hope when you can just ask them to? Or ask them to actually mod the thread to a higher standard?

I guess I really fall on the side of rarely, if ever, deleting threads. Even as a mod, I don't want to delete threads because I feel they are common property of the board. If someone is breaking the rules, or the thread itself violates the rules, that's one thing. But a bad trade rumor that has two pages of responses already in a few minutes? That should never be deleted. It's the offseason. It's FULL of bad trade rumors. Who cares? If it's really a problem, the thread can be locked with an explanation. That way there's complete transparency.

Well I understand where you are coming from but the way mods get bashed for "censorship" as it is - I think it would be a welcome opportunity for the mods - for example - recently a thread was deleted by the poster themselves (which started this thread i believe) and everyone went off on a mod bashing tangent before someone came in and told them that it was the poster who deleted the thread - and not one person apologized for bashing the mods

There is already enough drama with posters crying over censorship or being treated differently - at least this gives the power to the people and the people cant bitch about it - cause if your thread was getting derailed and you (as the thread starter) complained to the mods and certain posts were deleted everyone would be in an uproar about them being singled out and why was their posts deleted and so-n-so's post wasnt - blah blah

IMO its just more harmonious for the boards if the poster can delete the whole dang thing - if they feel like it they can restart the thread and try again

In the end is there any thread here that would be total devastation should it be deleted?

Originally Posted by dogfish

i absolutely think you should be able to delete threads you started. . . .

I agree, provided it is with the understanding that the mods may bring it back
if they deem it appropriate to do so, and that, once the mods have done that,
the thread-starter no longer has the right to delete it.

That is the way it has been up until now, and I see no reason to change it.

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Originally Posted by frauschieze

Oooo....did get the 4x multiplier?

Frau - if you think the membership is too dumb to decide what threads should be deleted and what shouldn't be, just say so.

I think mods should approve all posts before they're visible.

I deleted a thread yesterday because I found out that it had false information. I didnt want that source misleading anybody else.

Originally Posted by DallasChief

Frau - if you think the membership is too dumb to decide what threads should be deleted and what shouldn't be, just say so.

I think mods should approve all posts before they're visible.

**** troll.

I'd like to throw something out there. A while back one of the town-hall threads got completely side-tracked by off-topic joking.

Since it was a town-hall thread, and discussing a serious topic I moved the off-topic comments to a new thread in the lounge.

If you create a thread, and feel that it is being totally hi-jacked to the point that you want to delete it, there is the possibility that (if the mods agree it is warranted) the off-topic posts could be moved to a different thread/new thread.

I'm sure that we'd like to be bothered with that as little as possible, i.e. not just one or two off-topic posts, but rather a thread that the creator feels has been completely de-railed. Of course, the mods would have to discuss it as well before acting, but if you find yourself in that predicament, it would be another option besides deleting the entire thread, and would allow for all posts to still be displayed, but in their respective areas.

I hope I'm not opening a can of worms. Obviously, if someone intentionally tries to derail threads and post off-topic, that is something that is dealt with in the COC and could cause action to be taken against that poster.

Originally Posted by claymore

**** troll.

Claymore, this is a serious discussion. If you want to talk smack to me, please take it to the lounge.

tia

Originally Posted by DallasChief

Claymore, this is a serious discussion. If you want to talk smack to me, please take it to the lounge.

tia

Guys, this is a town-hall thread. We are always more vigilant in keeping things on-topic in the town-hall.

Originally Posted by getlynched47

I deleted a thread yesterday because I found out that it had false information. I didnt want that source misleading anybody else.

I guess I would have handled it differently. Maybe edited my first post saying it was false information and ask a mod to lock it with an explanation.

If you noticed, just because you deleted the thread, it didn't go away. Someone else started a thread wondering what happened and that same subject was still discussed.

Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne

Guys, this is a town-hall thread. We are always more vigilant in keeping things on-topic in the town-hall.

I thought that's what I was doing. I guess nothing is official until a mod does it.

Frau, please delete my account.

tia

I can't think of a good argument against people not being able to delete their own threads. Honestly. The threads that are being deleted aren't the long-strung out ones like the "I'm bored, drunk. . ." that people enjoy being in -- the ones that get deleted -- or what I've seen through my experience are the ones that initially had good discussion, but tabled off into a bunch of nonsense and became ridiculous in nature.

I've deleted multiple threads because that has been the case. Coupled with that, I had reported posts that never got deleted and nothing ever seemed to get back on track. Thus, I took the Law into my own hands and did what I thought was in the best interest of everyone and deleted it. Therefore, the pissing and moaning stopped -- and the shitty nature of the thread(s) that had good intentions get deleted.

Couldn't care less if things like that ended up in Message Board purgatory.

If a poster starts a thread and doesn't like how it is going because people mess around in it; by all means -- they should have the right to delete it.

The whole, "Well, it becomes the property of the entire board once you post it." sounds awfully Socialist to me. I don't like that.

Originally Posted by DallasChief

I thought that's what I was doing. I guess nothing is official until a mod does it.

Frau, please delete my account.

tia

Seriously.

And Deleting threads should be a members right.