Do you allow your members to close their own threads?

[Heatman]

Closing of forum threads or topics is a job that's supposedly meant to carried out by the forum moderators or Administrators. Although, there's always a possibility they might miss out on some threads that its discussions have been completed and may need to be locked. Does this warrant to give users the privilege of being able to lock their own threads when it's obvious to do so?

 

[Good-Person]

Closing of forum threads or topics is a job that's supposedly meant to carried out by the forum moderators or Administrators. Although, there's always a possibility they might miss out on some threads that its discussions have been completed and may need to be locked. Does this warrant to give users the privilege of being able to lock their own threads when it's obvious to do so?

Well, I think that in case if a person would like to close a thread, then they may have the option to do so. However, not all the forums allow that. There are a few forums where you may need to contact the moderator or the admin in order to get your thread deleted.

 

[Grant]

I think I do for most of my forums. If it's a serious forum, I tend to allow only a limited time to edit topics/posts. I think I set it for an hour maybe. So that's more than enough time to go in and edit if needed. But some of my forums don't have a time limit, it's just the ones that are more seruous in nature, like debate forums/political forums etc. Just because we don't want people to go in and edit every one of their posts when they are caught in a lie for example.

 

[Heatman]

I think I do for most of my forums. If it's a serious forum, I tend to allow only a limited time to edit topics/posts. I think I set it for an hour maybe. So that's more than enough time to go in and edit if needed. But some of my forums don't have a time limit, it's just the ones that are more seruous in nature, like debate forums/political forums etc. Just because we don't want people to go in and edit every one of their posts when they are caught in a lie for example.

No, this isn't actually what I was talking about. It's like when you create a new thread in Bizdustry now and the discussion have gone on for a while and you felt there's no new additional input that's worth it in the topic, would you have the privilege to close/lock the thread to prevent further replies.

 

[Kevovo]

As forum member, sometimes there would be some old threads that you feel are embarrassing and would like to delete them.

So a forum member would definitely prefer to be able to delete their own threads when they want to.

Alas, forum owners do not like to see a drop in the total number of thread in their forum.

 

[saoussen57651]

Closing of forum threads or topics is a job that's supposedly meant to carried out by the forum moderators or Administrators. Although, there's always a possibility they might miss out on some threads that its discussions have been completed and may need to be locked. Does this warrant to give users the privilege of being able to lock their own threads when it's obvious to do so?

It depends from the script you have so Xenforo authorizes and some free script not allowing such a feature as free forum providers unless allow it full moderation.

 

[Heatman]

As forum member, sometimes there would be some old threads that you feel are embarrassing and would like to delete them.

So a forum member would definitely prefer to be able to delete their own threads when they want to.

Alas, forum owners do not like to see a drop in the total number of thread in their forum.

I believe that it is the reason why most of the community owners will only ask their members to simply report such content so that they will take care of it in a way they believe it is going to serve the community better instead of them deciding on what they are going to do to it on their own.

It depends from the script you have so Xenforo authorizes and some free script not allowing such a feature as free forum providers unless allow it full moderation.

I completely get this too. The kind of forum software used by the website owner will determine what privilege they can give it members accounts.

 

[Kane]

I do not allow members to close their topics, however, upon request, I might close the topic if there is any valid reason. I also allow limited time editing of posts/topics, once the time passes, the post cannot be edited. I made everything clear on terms of use.

 

[Ja sa bong]

There are some members who can be very stupid. Allow me to use the work "Stupid" in this because they will end up closing a thread not because its discussion have been done but because they don't like a certain member's opinion in their thread. Forum members doesn't deserve to have such power.

 

[Shortie]

At the moment I don't tend to allow members to lock their own threads but I can see where it would be beneficial to allow members to lock their own threads if needed.

Sometimes a thread needs locking as it is no longer valid or because they may no longer be offering a service they were advertising and because of that, it may be better for them to be able to close it rather than wait for a staff member.

I feel as long as everything is in place and they are not able to abuse the option, it can be allowed for their threads only.

 

[Debashis]

No it shouldn't be allowed. If a member wants to get a thread closed, they should reach the staff team. It should be the staff who takes the final call whether to close it or not.

 

[ZandraJoi]

Members on my forum can delete their individual post in a thread but they cannot delete the thread as a whole. They can even delete their post if it's at the beginning which I feel causes headaches as the main topic is now gone but there are still replies to it.
I don't feel members should be able to delete or lock the entire thread, even if they started it. Sometimes other discussions have taken place & they in a sense are removing everybody else's posts.
If they let me know they'd like their thread deleted, I'll take into consideration what was being discussed & close it or edit their post.

 

[Cory1]

I do not allow this because I think people may close threads for the wrong reasons or if they got upset about something on the forum they may close every thread they've created just to redeem themselves. Asking a staff member to close your thread or even reporting your own thread if the option is available takes little to no effort and I'd rather they ask than give them what is essentially moderation powers.

 

[Riberet19]

I think closing a thread has to be something that only the administration or the moderators can do, but I think it should be able to be deleted or edited if they want, if you want it not to be discussed anymore in that thread just contact the administration or a moderator explaining the causes of why you want to close the thread and that's it.

 

[Heatman]

No it shouldn't be allowed. If a member wants to get a thread closed, they should reach the staff team. It should be the staff who takes the final call whether to close it or not.

Yeah, that's very correct on how best to go about closing or locking a thread. If the thread owner felt that it's due for the thread to be locked, there's always a report button function on the post. He or she can use it and sent in a report for the staffs to close the thread. If they review it and see reasons to close it, they will and notify the owner.