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Originally Posted by eviltwin
To me, this seems to be an unreasonable policy, in general. First of all, calling the person who started a thread for the "thread owner" seems wrong. This is a public board, but run by a private person. Either the threads "belong" to the owner of the board, or to all of the posters. I can understand deleting posts at the request of the poster who made it, but deleting an entire thread, including all the posts made by other posters, at the request of the original poster is not fair to the other posters.
In this thread there was no specific content, so nothing was really lost, but imagine a thread with contributions from a number of posters, including pictures and videos, suddenly being deleted because the original poster wanted it? Delete his posts, if necessary, and keep the rest of the thread intact for the rest of us to enjoy would be a more fair policy
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If the thread was a popular photo or video thread with multiple contributions the thread would not be deleted in it's entirety. The thread would be edited to fit the thread
creator's (maybe a better choice word choice than "owner") request. In this case as you already stated it was not that kind of thread, it was mainly just general discussion of a topic, which can be carried on in another thread. Rather than just editing the thread (which would probably leave some big gaps in the discussion) it was deleted.
We would
not delete anyone's contributions just because someone wanted the thread deleted. We also don't delete any threads or posts unless there is a valid reason. If someone were to report your post and just say "delete this, please", we wouldn't. There would have to be some reasoning behind it.
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Originally Posted by eviltwin
It could also be helpful to include some kind of link, as with moved threads, containing a single post explaining that the thread has been deleted, and possibly an explanation if appropriate, so that people don't get frustrated or confused, and so that there won't be started a new thread with the same problems.
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If a thread is deleted we normally send a explanation to the thread creator. We wouldn't want to post an explanation for every thread that's deleted. We try to hold a certain level of respect and privacy here, we don't want to "out" anyone for posting something. There are some cases when we do post explanations, though. Like for example when a thread is closed rather than deleted, normally done when a forum rule is broken. I understand it's frustrating to see a thread missing that you've been browsing for a long period of time but it's missing for a good reason. If someone is curious as to why it was deleted they can always PM a Moderator and ask. The information may be disclosed or not, depending on the reason.
Hope that clears some things up.
Slick