Why does chess.com give such extraordinary control over the thread to the OP?

What about if the OP himself is the author of such rubbish ?

You've not been around at the glorious times of Master_Valek, I guess. This guy had posted 3 threads/day in his two years here on the site, one of which "asked" for opinions about the "gambit" 1.Nc3 e5 2.b4 ?. He then proceeded to defend his opinion against those of higher-rated players, insulting and quoting them out of context, etc.

In such cases if it is not your topic, if you are not the OP, there is no compulsion for you to respond. If however you feel you strongly disagree or have information that you want to pass on in a friendly spirit, since you see that the OP is mistaken, then you can give a reply.

It is up to the OP to take in the spirit it was offered. Often the people who reply take it upon themselves correcting all wrongs. Then it becomes a had banging contest.

Once the OP begins insulting, there is no need to interact with him/her at all, whatsoever. 

But to pin everything on the OP is naive. One has to admit in all honesty that people do get a certain pleasure in going head to head in verbal jousting. It takes two to play. There is definitely some enjoyment on the part of the posters to uncover the truth, to prove the other guys wrong.

The temporary closed forum is now reopened per my double request.

Original Poster the guy who starts the thread.

Oh!  Tks.

My ex married a Schneider

My condolences.

What does it means? Your ex?

a woman who who used to be my girlfriend

Find another.

My ex married a Taylor. 

I'm in favor of the OP being able to block, but not delete posts.

I'm in favour of the OP(original poster) be able to act as an admin in a group about his own threads. Delete/lock the thread, delete useless comments.

U Cant delete useless comments, u would destroy the internet with it

It appears that all of George_jetson5's posts have disappeared from this thread and the"Is Chess a Draw" thread.  He does not appear to be banned from the site however. 

It seems that disagreeing with ponz is not allowed on this site.  Wow.

chiaroscuro62

This is not my thread--so please explain how I could have George_jetson5 blocked from this thread?

The fact is while he more or less called me a liar--I do not have him blocked and he is free to post in any of my threads. 

I don't know.  Maybe he deleted all his own posts.  I didn't see anyone calling you a liar but I have seen you use such rhetorical devices including "more or less called me a liar".  I can tell you that this was supposed to be my thread and I didn't delete anybody's posts.  Then on a thread decrying people's posts disappearing, being banned from threads, closing threads on request of one person, etc. someone's posts disappear.  I didn't do it and think that this is just as slimy as it gets.  I really hope he doesn't blame me.  I didn't do it George.

I didn't see anything on this thread that I regarded as even mildly inappropriate except perhaps your rhetorical flourish that someone "more or less called you a liar" by saying something you said was untrue.   That is a completely childish and aggressive piece of rhetoric inappropriate for civil discussion. 

Neither you nor the OP can delete your posts. All you can do is edit them to leave a "comment deleted" placeholder instead (to avoid screwing up the numbering I guess ?).

The only way to delete your posts is to close your account, and it deletes all your posts.

The mods can (and have in the past) close the forum part of an account and all corresponding posts disappear at least until the ban is lifted. I am not sure whether they can delete selectively the posts (they can delete whole threads though).

George_Jetson5 still appears as a chess.com member.  As I remember he wasn't a very good player so I doubt he got banned for cheating. 

In any event, I DID NOT delete his posts.  I think it is completely rotten that his posts got deleted and I am very suspicious of how this happened.