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Subject: Why can't OP's delete or lock their own posts?
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If the OP feels like his own post has gotten out of hand, then why shouldn't he be allowed to lock (or even delete) it?

  • 05.11.2012 9:09 AM PDT

real gamertag is mvyorkie009

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yorkie

they can edit the title or the OP to draw attention to the post
yorkie

  • 05.11.2012 9:10 AM PDT

It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.

Posted by: mvyorkie009
they can edit the title or the OP to draw attention to the post
yorkie

?

What does this answer?

[Edited on 05.11.2012 9:11 AM PDT]

  • 05.11.2012 9:10 AM PDT

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Because nothing teaches you to think your thread out thoroughly in the future than an embarrassing quote about the American penal system.

  • 05.11.2012 9:11 AM PDT

Because trolls would abuse that feature.

  • 05.11.2012 9:13 AM PDT

Posted by: Eric Duffy
Posted by: Synyster Ricz
It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.

Pretty much this...Bungie owns everything here.

Not Bungie, but the community. I doubt Bungie even wants our threads for keepsies.


Posted by: The Kangol Kid
Because nothing teaches you to think your thread out thoroughly in the future than an embarrassing quote about the American penal system.

Talkin' about that thread on the Flood? Hilarious.

  • 05.11.2012 9:13 AM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

Good arguments against this can be found here and here.

  • 05.11.2012 9:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: Tama
If the OP feels like his own post has gotten out of hand, then why shouldn't he be allowed to lock (or even delete) it?

The potential for trolling & spamming is far too great. Also, the OP is the most biased when it comes to "their" thread; if nobody agrees or the thread goes in a direction they didn't want a lock/delete would be the first thought on their mind. However, it's up to the masses how to take a thread and what direction it completely goes in - as an OP, all you can (and should) do is direct the conversation.

  • 05.11.2012 9:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Kickimanjaro
Good arguments against this can be found here and here.


Actually, coolmike won the post you seem to think proves a point against mine (in your first link).

  • 05.11.2012 9:20 AM PDT

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This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons.
Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.

Bungie dont want the riff raff burning any evidence.

  • 05.11.2012 9:26 AM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything


Posted by: Tama

Posted by: Kickimanjaro
Good arguments against this can be found here and here.


Actually, coolmike won the post you seem to think proves a point against mine (in your first link).
The point still remains that this has been a discussion that has been going on for years and there's not much new we can bring to the table.

  • 05.11.2012 9:27 AM PDT

My future is certain, I will one day fly away. All because I am saved from the penalty of sin. I know he lives.

Nothing ever gets deleted on the internetz. Besides just because the 3rd grader showed you up on your own topic, doesn't give you the right to delete the evidence.

No matter how bad you want to.

  • 05.11.2012 9:30 AM PDT

Because Achronos said so.

  • 05.11.2012 9:55 AM PDT

real gamertag is mvyorkie009

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yorkie


Posted by: Synyster Ricz
It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.

Posted by: mvyorkie009
they can edit the title or the OP to draw attention to the post
yorkie

?

What does this answer?


they can show that they want it locked.
yorkie

  • 05.12.2012 6:52 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."


Posted by: Synyster Ricz
It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.

Posted by: mvyorkie009
they can edit the title or the OP to draw attention to the post
yorkie

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What does this answer?
The OP can request a lock so he/she doesn't get banned because of it.

  • 05.12.2012 6:55 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

I always thought any person having the ability to delete posts was a bad idea.

  • 05.12.2012 6:59 PM PDT

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Once you post it, it isn't getting taken down. You don't own it anymore, it belongs to the forum. You can't lock it, because that's one of the joys of being a forum nina. You can make edits of your title and your text in the OP, that's it.

  • 05.12.2012 7:15 PM PDT
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As soon as someone submits a post to a forum board it ceases to be thier post and becomes the communities property. It's easy enough to just private message a moderator expressing your concern. If your argument is valid, they'll lock it.

  • 05.18.2012 1:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Synyster Ricz
It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.

Posted by: mvyorkie009
they can edit the title or the OP to draw attention to the post
yorkie

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What does this answer?


You can edit it to say please lock or something

  • 05.18.2012 3:21 PM PDT

Key

Posted by: Synyster Ricz
It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.
I hate it when people say this. It's still your thread. If someone wants to talk about the Titles thread, do they say "You should check out the thread owned by the Community made by Duardo about Titles and Prefixes"? No, they say "Check out Duardo's Titles and Prefixes thread". There's an implied amount of understood intellectual ownership.

I don't think anybody's trying to say that they literally own their thread and that altering it in some way is grounds for legal action. Just that it's still their thread that they made.

  • 05.18.2012 3:26 PM PDT

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This answers that the OP can change the OP to draw a Moderators attention to it so it can be locked.

The reason a thread cannot be locked by us normal users is that someone may find discussion value in it, other than the OP.

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Posted by: Synyster Ricz
It stops being "your" thread once you've posted it.

Posted by: mvyorkie009
they can edit the title or the OP to draw attention to the post
yorkie

?

What does this answer?

  • 05.18.2012 3:44 PM PDT

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Because once you create a thread, there's no turning back to prevent it.

Think of this way, if you had a cup full of permanent ink and you accidentally spill on your new white macbook pro, it stays with you forever and ever.

To quite answer your question, no thread or post on bungie.net can be locked by the user of the thread. They are reserved for evidence use in your post history.

  • 05.18.2012 3:59 PM PDT

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