Only Delete or Lock a Thread ? Why ?

bbrowniii

Doing a wholesale delete of a thread also prevents a member from claiming a bias against his or her posts, if they were to keep getting indidually deleted.

But ultimately, I think that they try to refrain from deleting threads wholesale, but once they go off the rails, just deleting a single post or two ain't gonna be enough to get them back on.

bbrowniii:

Thank you for the interesting perspective.

I do appreciate it.

Sprue

I'm not staff, but I'll still offer an opinion on this.

I think the 'single post delete' is an option - in fact I remember Aaron using it recently (can't recall what for). But, the reality is, I think that puts too much on the Forum admins. They've got plenty of other, non-Forum related stuff to do without having to go through each thread and decide which posts get to stay and which get to go.

Doing a wholesale delete of a thread also prevents a member from claiming a bias against his or her posts, if they were to keep getting indidually deleted.

But ultimately, I think that they try to refrain from deleting threads wholesale, but once they go off the rails, just deleting a single post or two ain't gonna be enough to get them back on.