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To think MNHQ should let us delete our own threads

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BeaFuddled · 05/06/2024 07:46

Just gone to catch up with a thread I was on and found this message

This thread has been deleted
Hello and thanks for the replies to this thread. The OP is very grateful but has asked that we take it down now - we have agreed to remove it.
MNHQ

I'm seeing it more and more with no reason given so why don't @MNHQ treat us like grown ups and let us delete a thread we've started if we think it's too outing, taken a nasty turn, wish we hadn't started it or its run course.

Good idea?

OP posts:
Trishna99 · 05/06/2024 08:09

I think everyone should be allowed to delete anything they've written on the Internet quickly. MN are so far behind the times.

Decisiontimehelp · 05/06/2024 08:08

My feeling is you should be able to delete your own content. Almost to the point of it being a human right.

However, MN would not be where it is if this was the case. A lot of people would delete their posts pretty sharpish.

I think new users should be informed at the point of posting that they can not delete the post without contacting MNHQ and making a request, which could be declined.

KimberleyClark · 05/06/2024 08:06

Or people could be allowed to just lock their threads so no further replies can be posted, rather than delete it.

Whinge · 05/06/2024 08:01

MN love to implement normal features years later than everywhere else. We only got the edit button last year, so the ability to delete threads might arrive at some point in the next decade. 😆

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BeaFuddled · 05/06/2024 07:59

SpringerFall · 05/06/2024 07:54

Because it is unfair for people to put time and effort into posting then for the OP to have a tantrum because it is not going the way they wanted

But that's happening all ready with MNHQ increasingly deleting threads at the OP's request.

Plus this is a chat forum - people are just writing a response not drafting a treaty.

OP posts:
Pourquoiaijeprislapeine · 05/06/2024 07:56

Pin0cchio · 05/06/2024 07:47

Because you'd get people deleting a useful thread because they didn't like the responses they got.

But suely if the OP deletes because they don't like the replies, it isn't a useful thread to them, only the PPs have found it useful?

oldmamascan · 05/06/2024 07:56

I agree with you OP, it's very strange, don't know many online spaces where this is the case.

SpringerFall · 05/06/2024 07:54

Because it is unfair for people to put time and effort into posting then for the OP to have a tantrum because it is not going the way they wanted

ConfusedConfuse · 05/06/2024 07:48

Pin0cchio · 05/06/2024 07:47

Because you'd get people deleting a useful thread because they didn't like the responses they got.

So? Pretty much every other forum allows people to delete their own threads.

TeeBee · 05/06/2024 07:47

Yep, I agree.

Pin0cchio · 05/06/2024 07:47

Because you'd get people deleting a useful thread because they didn't like the responses they got.