Do you weight it on the number of posts, or the value of the contribution?
Simply using the number of posts might promote spamming for the purpose of gaining influence, but then the value of the contribution requires a preliminary voting system that first allows users to determine what weighting each post should bestow upon it's creator -- and then you need to decide whether you weight those votes....
Actually, I'm not in favor at all of being able to delete a forum topic. But it's not really used that often, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
Yeah, I'm not in favour of it either -- It was really just a facetious extension of your post (which I'd also read as facetious).
Bravo to you then! :-)
I think you should be able to delete whole threads.
Exactly.
I think you should be able to delete whole threads.
Exactly.
Well, why exactly? It doesn't make sense.
Would it not be a reasonable idea, where a complete forum topic would otherwise disappear because the originator has disappeared - due to
AND where many others have contributed to that forum topic, for ownership of that forum topic or article to be transferred to a ghost_of_originator account. In that way, the efforts of other contributors/commentators is not thrown away.
Blogs and articles are a different case. These represent a completed work, and clearly belong to the originator in their entirety. Any subsequent comments, contributions or annotations are incidental to the original work.
REF: LASTCHANCE
People, this is a thread from June. Since then, a chance has been implemented -- nowadays, if you delete a post, it'll stay there but a text like [COMMENT DELETED] or something shows up.
That means the problem this thread discusses is not an issue anymore.
People, this is a thread from June. Since then, a chance has been implemented -- nowadays, if you delete a post, it'll stay there but a text like [COMMENT DELETED] or something shows up.
That means the problem this thread discusses is not an issue anymore.
I know. I just don't understand why some people still aren't convinced (rich excluded).
People, this is a thread from June. Since then, a chance has been implemented -- nowadays, if you delete a post, it'll stay there but a text like [COMMENT DELETED] or something shows up.
That means the problem this thread discusses is not an issue anymore.
I know. I just don't understand why some people still aren't convinced (rich excluded).
The thread has been broadened to discuss several related issues - though OP's original point is certainly addressed by the change you describe.
One reason that people may not be convinced is that this change has not been officially announced.
Yes threads belong to the Chess.com community.
But they are not controlled by the person who created it or the people who posted in it.
Chess.com controls the threads. Any vulgarities or hurtful comments will be removed by the staff.
This should stop the whinings...
I would say the person who started the thread should have a certain amount of time in which they can delete, like a few hours maybe, in case they made a mistake or found their answer elsewhere. At the same time, I agree that, once people start posting replies, it becomes a topic of discussion and should not be deleted randomly at the discretion of the OP. Maybe a time limit is a happy medium.
Ownership belongs to the collective posters according to the number of posts in the thread so far and thus deletion of a thread should be based on a complicated voting system based on weights.