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Deleting Forums

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Flarimew
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:16 (10 Years ago)
Sometimes I make a forum (on other sites) but find out it's already been made. I was thinking maybe we could have to option to delete forums that we created. There would be less question forums of the same topic and a lot easier to browse through the different forums. ~Thanks
Wynaut
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:18 (10 Years ago)
only mods can delete them.

PenScales
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:20 (10 Years ago)
No, Riako can delete them, not mods
Flarimew
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:28 (10 Years ago)
It still would be nice if we can delete them though (only the ones we made, of course)
Toothie
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:32 (10 Years ago)
No support. Only mods are able to lock them, and only Riako can delete them. It will cause confusion if users will start deleting their threads when they feel like it.
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Riako
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:34 (10 Years ago)
Who said moderators can't delete forum threads? Of course they can. The forum is practically none of my business :P
You can just send the link of a thread to a moderator and ask him/her to delete it.
Toothie
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Posted: Sun, 29/12/2013 21:36 (10 Years ago)
Ohh, hehe my bad. Still no support, like Riako said, you can just PM a moderator to close a thread and they will.
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Diana
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 03:42 (10 Years ago)
I support this. I feel like when this site gets a lot of users, this kind of thing will be a big headache for the staff and just put more work into their hands than necessary. Right now, it isn't really needed, but when this site starts to get an average of 100+ users on daily, then this would be better than having a ton of users PMing the mods to have their threads deleted.
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AutumnStar
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 03:47 (10 Years ago)
i don't mind deleting or closing threads at all lol i don't see it as more work, i just see it as doing the job i signed up for and being able to help users when they need it :)


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Diana
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 04:01 (10 Years ago)
You say that now when there's not that many users. Imagine modding a site as big as Pokefarm. I've already known personally how stressed out those mods can be, and that's without having to have users PMing you to to lock and delete threads.
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Kuroo
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 10:41 (10 Years ago)
What Autumn said.
Plus, when the site gets bigger and we feel like we can't handle it anymore, we always can hire more mods. :)


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Diana
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 10:45 (10 Years ago)
Still support this, though. Would be tons more convenient than PMing someone to do this. What's the point of hiring more mods when you can just give the users the option to do it?
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AoTora
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 12:41 (10 Years ago)
I am neutral about this for now..

Sure it would be nice to be able to delete the threads but than people could abuse it and randomly delete the thread because they wouldn't like somebody's opinion on it or something like that (saw this happen on other communities)

But than on the other hand .. I saw mods going crazy and frustrated on other sites as they grew which is something that I don't want to see happen here ... I love this site because the mods are awesome and willing to help and don't yell at you because they get frustrated due to a lot of work they have - and I'd like to see this staying as it is.. So I am not actually supporting this not actually against it either.
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Riako
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 12:46 (10 Years ago)
There will be a "Report forum post" button soon. Which means that you can also report your own post (most likely the first post of a thread) and tell the moderator to delete the thread. Then the moderator can decide wheter it's useful to delete the thread or maybe also to keep it/lock it.

It's not always good to delete a thread. Sometimes they may help other users. ;)
AoTora
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 12:48 (10 Years ago)
Yep :3 Like in help section for instance - if you want to ask something and it was already asked but few pages ago it would still be helpful to keep the thread but lock it - so other users can see it faster and don't ask the same question again ^^
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Diana
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Posted: Mon, 30/12/2013 12:51 (10 Years ago)
I was actually going to suggest a Report Forum Post thing! I swear, it's like our brains are sending signals to each other or something! XD Anyways, that would be pretty useful. It would ensure that the same mod doesn't get to many PMs at once.
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