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Thread creators shouldn't be able to delete entire threads

Jo0o·1/13/2018, 6:13:39 PM·3 votes·1,494 views

Several threads that I participated in in the past couple weeks have disappeared, and based on the content of the threads, I'm guessing the creator of them regretted the content of the thread and buried it. This doesn't seem productive for the boards community.

Allowing people to delete individual posts is certainly fine, but somebody shouldn't be able to create a thread, see that they're getting disagreed with and downvoted, and just remove the entire thing. I'm not gonna pretend that it isn't frustrating for me personally to be denied "winning" an argument in this fashion, but of greater importance than my individual satisfaction, important posts from Rioters occasionally get removed as well.

The recent announcement that individuals of honor levels 0 and 1 wouldn't get reset with season 8 has sparked a bunch of posts about being stuck at honor level 0. Riot Tantram personally commented in two of these threads with relevant and important information about how recovering one's honor level actually works, which presented a source to cite for others responding to the threads popping up. However, presumably due to downvote embarrassment, both threads have since been deleted.

For a thread author to have the power to unilaterally bury the discussion that they began seems at odds with effective and consistent communication.

7 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1/13/2018, 6:25:43 PM3 votes

Sometimes people change their minds and don't want to continue to have people posting in response to a position they no longer have, or maybe the thread was derailed and no longer constructive even if the post itself was fine; unless they are doing this frequently to avoid any dissenting opinion or their actions are otherwise malicious, deleting your own thread at some point isn't something we have reason to stop people from doing.

nerak231/13/2018, 6:47:31 PM1 votes

What bothers me is when the OP changes the first post in ways that seem deceptive w/o putting in an Edit.

Thus misleading a thread. Or outright making posters seem irreverent or off topic.

I say the following not aimed at anyone but myself and not to discredit this OP ( Jo ), but I recently deleted my own thread here because I received the answer and then did not want to show others how to abuse the boards further...

Again, not what your asking but another reason why...it does bother me also when threads are made, many comments on it then deleted. I understand your point completely.

ModPeriscope1/14/2018, 6:02:53 AM1 votes

I noticed the same thing too. There were several posts along the lines "I'm honor 0, but I'm not punished and I'm not toxic". I tried to link players to those threads Tantram had commented, but by that time they were deleted.