- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
The term "own" is tricky when we're talking about characters on a screen.
The OP clearly creates the topic, but the community is who decides (by their interaction or apathy) what "happens" to the topic.
I don't know whether anyone can "own" a discussion. Certainly, other than post/ignore/report, the non-ninja members don't have any direct "control" over the fate of the topic.
I'd say that we're each responsible for our responses. If we post, we're responsible for what we type. If we report, then we're responsible for that action. If we ignore... well, apathy and silence speaks more loudly than any shouting.
If we're talking about forum features though? I wouldn't be against the OP having the ability to "report" their own OP and that automatically collapses the OP, puts the topic into the report queue and flags it as a "lock requested" type of report.
Far easier than editing the OP and re-titling it to "please lock".