Moderator deletion

[Martin]

I know for fact they can even delete things and not leave a place holder I am pretty sure it has happened to me and Martin.

Me what?? o_O?

[Point_Zero]

Me what?? o_O?

Im saying I think the mod completely deleted some of our posts from another thread as if they didn't exist.

[MerlinOmniking]

Would like the ability to lock threads, ability for person that started thread to delete offensive comments on their threads.

[Sasaiki]

Would like the ability to lock threads, ability for person that started thread to delete offensive comments on their threads.

This should be left to mods. If you give the OP the ability to delete posts or lock the thread, then it can lead to people abusing that power.

Such as Poster 1: (Opinion)
Poster 2: (Opinion)
Poster 1 does not like poster 2's opinion and deletes it.

[MerlinOmniking]

Ok, deleting would be OP; However, If we could lock threads from the beginning, recruitment forums would not be bothered with trolling posts by all.

[Sasaiki]

I agree with the ability to create a locked thread in that sense that if someone wants to post an informative post they can make the thread so no one can post. But only in the first post so the person can't just lock and/or unlock when/if they feel like it.

[MerlinOmniking]

Agree it would be a function of posting the new thread.

[Yarr]

Things are getting a little carried away with all this crying about people trolling. Just because you dont like something that someone else says, doesnt mean someone is trolling.

[Wooba]

Things are getting a little carried away with all this crying about people trolling. Just because you dont like something that someone else says, doesnt mean someone is trolling.

Too many people think that if someone is disagreeing with you, they must be Trollin'. All this really says is that the Trolls are winning the battle of wits, and have turned all of us against eachother. People seem to have this difficulty with ignoring things they don't like, and have to react to it. "You disagree with my oppinion, so you must be trolling me, and I'm going to call you on it." Even when the person says they're not trolling, people still jump on them saying they are trolling.

The internet is a terrifying battlefield of wits.

[Yarr]

I couldnt agree more Wooba. I wish people could see my original posts in the original Elite threads, but their LS leader deleted them. Now people will forever label me as a "Troll Poster".

I've been the admin of my own forums for 7 years. This is a forum that was only for CKD and people from FFXI on Ifrit. Yet we have over 1200 posters and almost 180,000 posts. If I was as big a troll as some people like to pretend I am then my forums would never have got to where they are now.

I was also a Staff Writer for the IGN Vault FFXI Website for a year or two. I was also the head Mod on the IGN VN FFXI Forums for longer (I quit only to focus on my own forums).

So people need to get off their high horse and start to understand that if we want to build a real community here, then we're going to have a few arguments. Its not a reason to start calling mods.