Deleting and/or closing threads

David1967

David1967

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I posted my question in "Disappeared threads" thread but NO ONE answered it. I am posting it again here, maybe I will get the answer:

The question for MODERATORS is: Would you CLOSE (please note I did not write DELETE) "my" thread if I ask you to do it?


I do not want to delete the thread - I want to avoid this as much as you. But as I start the thread I feel somewhat responsible for it. If I start what you (English speaking people) call "flame war" I will be responsible for it and might be banned from the forum (G6 example). I know I cannot be responsible for other people behaviour but I still feel responsibility for what is going on in "my" thread. If another ghost#x appears I would like to be able to do as much as possible to "Moderate" it (Please note again I did not say DELETE). And only in EXTREME (REALLY EXTREME) case I would like to be able to delete it.

I think that closing the thread is not that extreme - but I cannot do it. I would like to know whether Moderators would close the thread with the note: "THIS THREAD WAS CLOSED BECAUSE DAVID1967 ASKED FOR IT". Other forumites would still be able to read the posts - NO information and intelectual property will be lost - and I am sure they (forumites)would understand my reasons. CLOSING the thread wich is going the wrong direction is less harm than DELETING it.

Moderators, could you plase reply?

David

 
I would normally close a thread you started if you asked me to do it. I haven't tried the experiment, but I'm told that if you start a thread and you go back and edit your post at the top of the thread and click on "delete," that makes the whole thread disappear.


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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
 
Yes, if you delete the first post, the whole thread is deleted. But I would like to avoid this scenario as much as possible.

David

PS: Sorry if I do not reply, I do not have Internet access over the weekend.

[This message has been edited by David1967 (edited 19 November 1999).]
 
Each thread is judged on it's own merits (while posters are judged on their posts). If a thread is getting pretty good discussions in it, but the owner wants to close it, we'd have to look at the reasons why. Each thread is different, so without seeing the thread in question, we can't say for sure.

If it needs to be closed, it will be closed. If you want it to be closed, and we feel it should be closed, or a new thread started, we will close it. Otherwise, we won't.

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

Insert witty quip here
 
We have rules about under what circumstances threads will be locked or deleted. We do not have a rule that says "if one member asks that a thread be locked, it will be locked."

If it's not clear by now that a thread you start is not "your thread" I don't know how I can explain it any more clearly. Maybe there's some question whether I know what I'm talking about though -- the way to settle that is to search searchable forums for "my thread" and observe for yourself that when anyone uses that phrase to mean he's entitled to put an end to that thread whether anyone wants to go on posting to it or not on any forum on the net he gets corrected. Go to www.dejanews.com and you can search thousands of newsgroups amounting to millions of posts (maybe hundreds of millions; usenet is BIG); go to www.onelist.com and you can search thousands of mailing lists -- you ought to be able to find enough evidence to convince you that's the universal standard all over the net, not just here.

Of course you could still believe it should be different, and you can start a forum of your own where threads can be stopped by whoever starts them. You're certainly entitled to argue it should be different here, too, and try to convince everyone to change the rules.

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Mr. Cougar Allen,
there was no need for you to reply to this post. I asked mmoderators and I received more than satisfactory answers. I thank them that they keep this place "civil".

David



[This message has been edited by David1967 (edited 23 November 1999).]
 
And that's another rule :
The poster does not decide who should and who should not reply to "his/her" posts
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BrianWE
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