Please lock threads instead of deleating them

[Adept]

This is a call for moderation and reason.

It's your site, so you moderate it as you wish. Disappearing threads altogether is still very jarring, and gives a nasty signal. It also makes it very hard to figure out what caused the disappearanse.

Please consider the alternative of posting something in the lines of: "This thread has been locked because..." and locking the thread. You can also censor individual posts from such a thread (or othervice), preferably in such a way that we can see what caused the censoring.

Thank you for reading this,

-Adept

 

[Magistus]

I agree with this, I moderate a few forums, and this is the method we use, we lock the threads with an Explanation. If there is something in a specific message you don't want users to read, you could edit the original post with an explanation of post edited by moderator.

 

[Deleted_Account]

/bye forum. Not that I've had a thread deleted, I just have some standards.

 

[Rurik]

Did another thread get deleted?

I have had little time this weekend to keep up.

 

[gamesmeister]

Not that I can see, and I've been around a fair amount this weekend. I think it was just a delayed reaction... :?

 

[Rurik]

Do we know who the Deleted_Account user used to be?

EDIT: I know it can't be trif - he is never so easily discouraged. :wink:

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Do we know who the Deleted_Account user used to be?

EDIT: I know it can't be trif - he is never so easily discouraged. :wink:

And he'd only made 26 posts when he left - both Trif and "Banned Beatle" are over 10 times that...

 

[Rurik]

Ahh. I believe it was Yakk.

He seemed generally a helpful guy.

Either way, farewell and good luck in the afterlife.

 

[Trifletraxor]

The bugs are still here to bug you.

SGL.

 

[Rurik]

The bugs are still here to bug you.

SGL.

See, I know you like the Idea of capping skills at 100, but you yourself are one of the best arguments for very high skills.

I figure your Resilience has got to be around 150% or so.