- Demerzel
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- Senior Heroic Member
No, because it would be easily abused, and because once you create a post, it is no longer your property -- it is the property of the community.
This feature would be pretty easy to abuse: as soon as someone starts to lose an argument, they could just lock their own thread and prevent further discussion in it. Sure, the bungie.net staff could take care of the abusers, but if the feature isn't there in the first place, it doesn't create that problem. It would also be easy to cross-post -- you could simply post an advertisement for a Halo 3 group in the Underground, for example, and then a few hours, you could just edit your post to say "Whoops, wrong forum" and then lock it.
Once you publish a post to the forums, it is no longer yours to lock. It has been posted on a community forum, effectively making it a part of the community. The post is yours until you publish it, but once you submit it to the listing, it is no longer yours.
I don't think that just because other forums support something, that that necessarily means that bungie.net should also support it. You have to look at what the design philosophy of the site is -- whether it would mesh well with what we've got now, and how it would impact people here. In my opinion, it's not something that we need here on bungie.net.