Unnecessary deleting of threads?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/53865-yukes-new-race-for-ffxiv

Why was this thread deleted, instead of being locked or moved or better yet left alone? There was some legitimate discussion going on in it, and while only tenuously assciated with FFXIV did not break any rules that I know about.

Generally, I appriciate the work the GMs and moderators do on this forum, but this seems rather heavyhanded deleting topics that aren't being disruptive or causing anyone any harm, nor are doing anything previously established as against the rules (such as promoting non-Square Enix software, etc).

At a minimum, I want it undeleted and if absolutely necessary, locked, so I can at least copy-paste some of my own text from it.

If they were "heavy handed", some people would've lost their posting privilege long long ago. Personally, I'd like to see them go through and prune many more General Discussion threads. I can barely tolerate entering that stinkhole anymore. Maybe that's what the trolls want? I don't even know.

I didn't see the end of the thread's life, but perhaps something in there warranted the additional measure of thread deletion instead of locking.

There was nothing. No rude behavior, no trolling, no cursing, no offsite links, no iffy pictures, no advertising.

I had put a lot of care and attention into a post, and then the thread just vanished. Usually, if the mods consider a thread off topic or gone off track from its topic, they'll lock it with an explanation.

When thread vanish like that isn't the OP that close it?

I wish they delete more threads, 99% are garbage. Think before you talk people.

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

When thread vanish like that isn't the OP that close it?

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Posters can't close their own threads.

Bump. I want an answer.

If its not FFXIV related, SE has the right to do anything with these forums. Relax man.

I think the answer is that the person who made it was a troll. Perhaps the troll got banned and all their posts deleted? I haven't seen that troll around lately, so that would be my guess.

Hello and sorry for such a late reply.

I have gone ahead and review the entire thread and changed it so it can be viewed, once again. I am not going to open up the thread as it does speak of one of our other games, even though I know you are just talking about the race and the back history on the creatures. It is a good opinion and some careful thought was put into some of the posts, that is why I am allowing it to be viewed.

Again, I am sorry for the late review and I will discuss with my staff what happened during this case.

Thank you,

SGM Jhanaka

Well here is my side...


I try to report a message from someone creating a drama or a fight on my recruitment post. What have I gotten? nothing. It has not been removed. Then I tried to create a new post for a recruitment to start clean and I got it locked because for obvious reason it is considered spam. I have been trying to ask for it to be removed instead of the new one. The least I want is some drama from someone, even well know in the game already as a trouble maker, and just move on. My intentions are not to spam but rather avoid some more irrational and unnecessary drama in a game. I know they got a lot of work to do but wow 4 people reported this guy's post as harassment and no one did anything about it. I think you guys should give us the ability to delete our threads. That way we can delete it and recreate our new ones instead of creating a big chain and posting over and over again like crazy in the same thread. Also it will give us a little bit more of control if things gets way out of hand. Seriously who wants to have a drama going on , on a simple harmless recruitment post for example? We live in a sad world with a lot of people that got nothing better to do but mess up everyone's play time. We can't do much in game but to BList them, at least we should be able to have more actions towards them in here. It will give us a time out from them lol. By the way can I have a help here? ;_;


This is the one that I need to be removed
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...29-Recruiting?

This is the one that I need re-open
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ing-NA-Players


Thank you :)