- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: aku
No, I don't think you should be able to. Deleting your own posts might be okay, but not threads. And since you can just edit posts, then it's pretty pointless.
In my opinion, it comes down to the fact that, as has been said many times, once you start a thread, you no longer own it. If people had the ability to lock their own threads, some of them would probably just lock any thread that didn't go the way they had planned.
So, just leave it to the moderators. And if you start a thread that turns to spam, you can always just change the title to something like "lock this thread," and leave it up to a moderator to decide if it should really be locked.
Editting isn't just the same.
You can't edit really old threads.