there should be a way to delete threads we created, instead of just having to pm a moderator about it. you guys agree? or do you think its fine like this. any opinions from the moderators?

Typically threads become locked and just fall on Mene for a good reason. If you were to just up and delete the thread, that would delete all the posts within it, thus taking away all the gold a person has made by them. That would pretty much suck if you were saving up for something and suddenly lost a bunch of gold and had no idea why because you happened to have posted in that thread however long ago but haven't been in it for awhile, y'know?

It might be better to suggest that the users be able to lock up their own threads rather than a delete option.

Ise's right, that would upset a lot of people. Being able to lock your own thread would no doubt be useful to a lot of people though, I'm sure some people would find a way to abuse it, mind! Things like thread contests and so on could be manipulated by the OP being able to close the thread and prevent posting for example.

I dunno, right now I'm ambivalent about this, I'd have to let if sit for a while before I could form a concrete opinion.

Honestly, I disagree. There is very little thread locking that goes on. If there is it is normally because the thread owner has pretty much abandoned it. I have been on staff for 10 months now. I have locked my quest thread once and my exchange shop 3 times. There is no real reason for everyone to have the ability to lock their own threads.
We do not delete threads. If we delete threads it takes peoples posts away. Which takes their gold away. If users were allowed to delete threads forums would be filled with deleted threads that we would have to go through and clean up. When things are deleted, for you guys they are gone. For us, they are still there incase we need to go back on them. Threads are the same way. They are still there for us.

I agree with Bartuc, and I think the locking option could theoretically be a good idea-it seems to work on Solia-but anything can (and will) be abused.

It might be a good idea to allow people to delete their own posts, though; for instance, if they double-post, that way the mods don't have to deal with it. :lol:

There has been talk of doing something that will take care of double posts automatically.

@bartuc: the automatic thing would be really good, so we don't have to get in trouble for it, cause i keep forgetting not to double post. :P

I don't want to seem like I'm disagreeing, but an automatic double-post prevention system might be a problem. Because when you think about it, you have to double post for shops and stuff. So it would take extra time to teach the system that those double posts are okay. And then if you use a system like that, you might have to have it differentiate between accidental doubles, and non-accidental, and really...they're mostly all accidental. And I would assume that a double-post deletion option that doesn't require users or mods would auto-slap an infraction of some sort, and if it does, then that might turn off the users a bit.

On the other side of the spectrum, since a computer doesn't have actual intelligence, it brings to bear the fact that it can't use judgment to decide whether the post was infraction worthy, and it can't listen to the user explain themselves. :gonk:

Overall, as far as locking threads, I think that having a mod do it is much more convenient. Gives mods something to do to interact with the userbase, I'd say. :) And we want our mods to have more than enough reasons to interact with us, amirite? ^^ And then again, there's an influx of off-siters who are still acclimating themselves to Mene, and some might just not give a damn, and thus...POWER ABUSE.

IN CONCLUSION TO MY HUEG ESSAY, the setup, to me, is okay.

But of course, I understand where everyone's coming from. Dont' think Im' trying to put you down, I'm not. ;) I just wanted to share some more insight for brainstorming.

If users had the option to delete their own threads/posts then that would sort of detract from the value of moderators. I mean if regular users could do everything mods could there is no point having mods at all. Plus if users were able to delete their own threads it could mean that it is easier to spam, I mean you make the post and then delete it so no-one knows.
A double post prevention thing seems like a good idea to me though, it will svae people getting an infraction or making little mistakes like that.

Also, I don't see why people would want to delete their threads when like...they lose gold. XD That's why we get 'em lock'd.

I...think?

True, there really isn't any point in deleting a thread, I mean the only reason you should want to delete it is if you typed something that you wanted to get rid of, so you really shouldn' have posted it in the first place.
Locking threads is a much better idea, I just don't see it happening.

Originally Posted by Silver Crusnik

[COLOR="Indigo"]I don't want to seem like I'm disagreeing, but an automatic double-post prevention system might be a problem. Because when you think about it, you have to double post for shops and stuff. So it would take extra time to teach the system that those double posts are okay. And then if you use a system like that, you might have to have it differentiate between accidental doubles, and non-accidental, and really...they're mostly all accidental. And I would assume that a double-post deletion option that doesn't require users or mods would auto-slap an infraction of some sort, and if it does, then that might turn off the users a bit.

On the other side of the spectrum, since a computer doesn't have actual intelligence, it brings to bear the fact that it can't use judgment to decide whether the post was infraction worthy, and it can't listen to the user explain themselves. :gonk:

It would do it for posts within the non-allowed time limit. If it is a lag double post (two identical posts) It would be on you to go back over it and erase the duplicate post in your post. But, I doubt we would kick anyone in the shin for not doing that.

There will be no auto-infractions. That would cause more hassle for us then it would save any of us.