Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
Just yesterday, I posted to [MENTION=347107]wipekitty[/MENTION]'s preliminary thread to this one, on the Living Car Free Forum:…
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Originally Posted by
wipekitty
That is precisely the 'heated discussion to which I was referring.
I honestly have
my general attitude is that if I start a thread, I have some kind of obligation to check in on it and keep it on track no strong opinions on whether OPs should be allowed to delete their threads.
I lean toward yes; but. Others might think that is a job solely for the mods.
Originally Posted by
Machka
Anytime you want to clean up your threads ... you can delete them too. You just have to be the thread starter.
Saves the mods time and energy when a thread goes off the rails on the third post. Instead of bothering them, just delete the thread! Quick and easy!
Frankly, I don’t see the reason to be so proprietary about a thread, once it is submitted and opened to a large widely varied audience. If it gets too far off-topic, I have seen other subscribers object, and if the OP is interesting enough, likely a subsequent subscriber we will send it back on track. And maybe the deviation is more interesting than the OP
I think the Moderators provide a generally recognized sensibility beyond an OP’s personal standards.
Besides, any and all posts keep a thread alive (except those that cause it to be closed)
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Originally Posted by
alan s
You do realize that once this is out of the top 5 threads, no one will read it, and after it drops off the first page, it is ancient history. Good luck keeping it active and getting anything useful out of it.