As far as my knowledge goes, you can't close your own threads right now (please correct me if I'm wrong!), you can only delete them. I feel there should be the possibility of closing your own thread. Why? Here's some pros: Less work for staff members concerning forum moderation Allows people to easily close bidding Easier to stop drama, a pointless discussion, etc. you've (most likely accidentally) created yourself Easy to disable participation after a player-hosted event or contest ends What would also make especially point 2 and 4 easier to handle is the possibility to post on threads you closed yourself (not threads closed by a moderator!) yourself; so not actually closing it, but limiting the right to post on your thread to just you and staff members and possibly a few other members you want to have this right. I don't know if this is something that can be executed, though. Also, some possible downsides that should be considered: Might lead to other people being frustrated when a thread of a discussion or anything similar is closed, because they can't state their opinion anymore on that thread There might be ways this could be abused (minor abuse), but I can't think of a way right now. Feel free to post if you do! Thoughts? P.S.: Yes, I know, this wouldn't be a high-priority thing at all, but I thought I'd just throw this out there.
I don't see any issues whatsoever limiting this to certain sub-forums, like the Market sub-forum for example. Maybe not the best idea to implement this everywhere, but if you locked your own thread, you could possibly be allowed to re-open it (useful for Market threads where you can edit the title and add new items).
Is this even still possible in the Market section? And yes, you're right in saying it should be restricted, e.g. not being allowed to close, say, something in the Support section.
Nope, the only thing you can do in the Market is edit your thread title, but I believe that's possible almost everywhere.
I don't see anything wrong with this. As long as that thread doesn't go out of hand, I'm all for this. Most of the GMs do a good job closing the thread if you report then though.
I always wondered why this function wasn't there in the first place. Agreed, it would sure help with some of the forum cleaning.
One reason is that of the OP of a thread was bad talking about a certain individual, that person will not have the ability to defend him/herself. It's a stretch, but I've seen this happen before on another forum.
This should, of course, be prevented by setting up an extra rule, maybe, for the forums (Don't abuse the ability of closing threads), and, as you said, threads can be unlocked by a staff member.
I had this problem once, i made a thread i wanted to delete it but i couldent so i had to delete my post and wait for a staff member. I feel as if there could be a downside to this though with important discussions being closed because someone gets upset or if someone gets really nasty and deletes the thread to destroy the evidence type of thing *I think right now if we edit a post the gms can see what we wrote before we edited it if we want too, im not too sure someone will have to correct me on this* But if thats the case as nice as it would be to be able to close our own threads, it might be best left to a staff power only.
When I was a staff member I had the ability to see edit histories and was able to un-delete a thread, too. My guess is that it's still like this. And I think that in the rare case of that (what you said) happening, the staff should intervene. But really, that's a rare occasion, very rare, so in the end, it will be less work for staff members, in my opinion.
Simple answer to this, I'm afraid: Xenforo doesn't give us the option to allow users to lock/unlock their own posts.
