Rickfur Posted July 20, 2002 Posted July 20, 2002 Jeremy, can you enable allowing users to delete their own threads please? It's come up a few times... Contents Under Pressure...
Rubbertoe Posted July 20, 2002 Posted July 20, 2002 Originally posted by Acceptable Risk:Jeremy, can you enable allowing users to delete their own threads please? It's come up a few times... Something like that is likely to cheeze off a few people... I mean, imagine if you are in a heated debate with someone about something - and you are WINNING, and that person just wipes out the whole thread. Add to that the fact the usually many people respond in a single thread, and in deleting a thread that you started, you'd also be effectively silencing a whole lot of other folks. Imho, it's just better to make sure you wanna say what you say before you say it. Rubbertoe - Webcam - Image Archives --== http://www.bigfoot.com/~rbatina ==--
Rubbertoe Posted July 20, 2002 Posted July 20, 2002 Originally posted by Acceptable Risk:Jeremy, can you enable allowing users to delete their own threads please? It's come up a few times... Something like that is likely to cheeze off a few people... I mean, imagine if you are in a heated debate with someone about something - and you are WINNING, and that person just wipes out the whole thread. Add to that the fact the usually many people respond in a single thread, and in deleting a thread that you started, you'd also be effectively silencing a whole lot of other folks. Imho, it's just better to make sure you wanna say what you say before you say it. Rubbertoe - Webcam - Image Archives --== http://www.bigfoot.com/~rbatina ==--
Pubo Posted July 21, 2002 Posted July 21, 2002 I'm all in favor of options though. If someone wants to change or delete a post they can, sometimes threads can get way off track and get ugly. The faster they are snipped the better.
+Mr. Snazz Posted July 24, 2002 Posted July 24, 2002 Perhaps it would be more appropriate/acceptable to allow thread creators to 'lock' their own threads, to prevent further escalation of flame wars, etc. ...might be less controversial than deleting the entire thing.
Elias Posted July 24, 2002 Posted July 24, 2002 I'm not comfortable allowing users to delete threads or posts even if they own them. Right now, someone can edit their post and delete all the contents, but at least there's a record that a post was made even if the contents are gone. On the other hand, I do think its good idea to allow topic starters the ability to close their topics if they feel the discussion is getting off topic or out of hand. I'll be editing the forum settings in the next day or two and will make this change. -Elias
Rickfur Posted July 24, 2002 Author Posted July 24, 2002 Excellent... That's better than nothing... Thanks.... Contents Under Pressure...
BassoonPilot Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Elias:... On the other hand, I do think its good idea to allow topic starters the ability to close their topics if they feel the discussion is getting off topic or out of hand. Or when somebody disagrees with their point of view. This has as much potential for abuse as the other scenarios you mentioned. I think that ability should remain with the moderators, who presumably have an even hand.
Rubbertoe Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 quote:Or when somebody disagrees with their point of view. This has as much potential for abuse as the other scenarios you mentioned. Yeah - I was thinking that same thing... get a heated thread with many participants, then BAM - it gets shut down by the original poster. This, of course, will only lead to the annoyed people starting their own threads, with similar topic - to continue their ranting, justified or not. Rubbertoe - Webcam - Image Archives --== http://www.bigfoot.com/~rbatina ==--
Rubbertoe Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 quote:Or when somebody disagrees with their point of view. This has as much potential for abuse as the other scenarios you mentioned. Yeah - I was thinking that same thing... get a heated thread with many participants, then BAM - it gets shut down by the original poster. This, of course, will only lead to the annoyed people starting their own threads, with similar topic - to continue their ranting, justified or not. Rubbertoe - Webcam - Image Archives --== http://www.bigfoot.com/~rbatina ==--
+majicman Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 If the "getting off-topic" thing annoys the thread creator, and they close threads for getting "off-topic", I guess I can never post again! RATS!! (At least until we get an "Off-Topic Forum". MAN! I would RULE that!!) --majicman
+majicman Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 If the "getting off-topic" thing annoys the thread creator, and they close threads for getting "off-topic", I guess I can never post again! RATS!! (At least until we get an "Off-Topic Forum". MAN! I would RULE that!!) --majicman
+mrp Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 quote:Originally posted by majicman:I guess I can never post again! RATS!! (At least until we get an "Off-Topic Forum". MAN! I would RULE that!!) --majicman I would think that in the OFF-TOPIC area, all threads would start pre-closed for your convienence.
+mrp Posted July 25, 2002 Posted July 25, 2002 quote:Originally posted by majicman:I guess I can never post again! RATS!! (At least until we get an "Off-Topic Forum". MAN! I would RULE that!!) --majicman I would think that in the OFF-TOPIC area, all threads would start pre-closed for your convienence.
+Prime Suspect Posted July 26, 2002 Posted July 26, 2002 quote:Jeremy, can you enable allowing users to delete their own threads please? It's come up a few times... This has "bad idea" written all over it. I guess I just don't subscribe to the concept that just because someone starts a thread, that they somehow inherit the right to control that thread's content. The only exception I see would be when no one has posted a reply yet.
BassoonPilot Posted July 27, 2002 Posted July 27, 2002 This morning, I noticed that we have now lost the ability to delete a message, even immediately after posting it. A dialogue box comes up stating that "a message can't be deleted once it has been responded to." Okay, that sounds fair ... but no one had time to read, much less respond to the message I have in mind. In fact, a couple of hours later, it still has garnered no responses. Perhaps the controls have been set too tight.
+ApK Posted September 14, 2002 Posted September 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by BassoonPilot:This morning, I noticed that we have now lost the ability to delete a message, even immediately after posting it I wondered why there was so many "post deleted" messages all of a sudden....any response on this from Jeremy? ApK
BassoonPilot Posted September 15, 2002 Posted September 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by ApK: I wondered why there was so many "post deleted" messages all of a sudden....any response on this from Jeremy? ApK I had made the same statement more recently in another thread, and Elias answered that "it was a bug and he had fixed it," but no other explanation was offered. I notice that we are still unable to delete our own posts, so I assume Elias fixed it so that the initiators of threads are no longer able to delete their threads. (Perhaps only if the thread contained responses?) I haven't tested this theory.
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