Give owners the ability to lock their own topics

Different55 · 2015-08-22 04:20:55

To cut down on the people asking us to lock their topics.

Xfrogman43, Marios, Shadow, Calicara, some woman, Pingohits, Onjit, Mouseh, Badoosh, Schlog, Swarth100, The Party Animal, Krosis, W24

Onjit · 2015-08-22 04:27:19

I think this is a good idea.

The Party Animal · 2015-08-22 04:35:46

aren't you the one who edits the forums

Slabdrill, hummerz5

Different55 · 2015-08-22 05:07:50

TPA2 wrote:

aren't you the one who edits the forums

Yeah but I'm not just going to run around and add random features you guys might not care about or might hate without you at least getting a chance to voice your opinion first.

BuzzerBee · 2015-08-22 10:31:07

I say you should allow them to lock their own topics but don't allow them to unlock it. Mods still have the ability to unlock it tho ofc

Xfrogman43, Pingohits

Creature · 2015-08-22 15:06:40

As long as they justify why they're locking it.

Xfrogman43 · 2015-08-22 23:22:37

Creature wrote:

As long as they justify why they're locking it.

Then the mods would have to be like "ok thats a good reason" and it would be easier to just have mods lock it.

Creature · 2015-08-23 00:42:35

Xfrogman43 wrote:

Creature wrote:
As long as they justify why they're locking it.
Then the mods would have to be like "ok thats a good reason" and it would be easier to just have mods lock it.

A good reason isn't really required, but who partaked in the discussion would like to know why the discussion is being closed.

hummerz5 · 2015-08-23 00:54:22

Creature wrote:

Xfrogman43 wrote:
Creature wrote:
As long as they justify why they're locking it.
Then the mods would have to be like "ok thats a good reason" and it would be easier to just have mods lock it.
A good reason isn't really required, but who partaked in the discussion would like to know why the discussion is being closed.

Yeah. the <Lock Post> could have a textarea for the reason.
not sure where you would show said reason...

andsrt500 · 2015-08-23 04:00:12

Different55 wrote:

To cut down on the people asking us to lock their topics.

how about a Forum Suggestions forum?

Different55 · 2015-08-23 04:01:17

There used to be one, but it got merged with Forum Discussion and now it serves as both.

Ratburntro44 · 2015-08-23 06:36:32

Tbh I don't think OP should have ability to lock topic (or that they should be considered the topic's "owner"). Forums are for open discussion, not really for discussion controlled by the person who puts forth a topic. Most of the valid reasons for an OP to close a topic are reasons that a mod should probably be closing it anyways.

Pyromaniac, skullz17, Br0k3n, Different55

Different55 · 2015-08-23 06:41:42

Ratburntro44 wrote:

Tbh I don't think OP should have ability to lock topic (or that they should be considered the topic's "owner"). Forums are for open discussion, not really for discussion controlled by the person who puts forth a topic. Most of the valid reasons for an OP to close a topic are reasons that a mod should probably be closing it anyways.

They can always just delete it. If they want a topic locked for a stupid reason and we won't do it (never happened before in the past but eh (EDIT: actually I think that happened once. I think they threatened to delete it if we didn't lock it)) they can always just hit the delete button which really grinds my gears which is why, if I'm going to be honest here, I'm a little reluctant to fix the bug I introduced that prevents users from deleting topics with posts in it specifically because you guys seem to like to delete topics at the drop of a hat like whyeven. I'd rather give you guys the ability to lock and take away your ability to delete (but on purpose this time, not as a side effect). Half my hope with giving you guys the ability to lock topics is that you'd turn to that instead of deleting them more often.

Onjit, BuzzerBee, Swarth100, Schlog

mrjawapa · 2015-08-23 17:28:02

sure, but only give it to the "probably not a noob", or whatever, group.

Onjit, some woman, Br0k3n

Ratburntro44 · 2015-08-23 18:38:05

In phpBB it's actually default behavior to not allow users to delete topics I believe.

Slabdrill · 2015-08-28 17:24:55

But if I can't delete my topics then everyone will know that I posted my stuff in the wrong subforum!

Different55 · 2015-08-28 18:23:45

Do what everyone else does, report it and request that it be moved.

Nebula · 2015-08-28 18:38:07

Please add the spot on the forum...

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