OP says 'Please Close This Thread'

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I've not done it, but its been done to me. For example, on that thread about Iwo Jima being renamed.

which turned into a flamefest.......

When the flames were stoked, and not across the board. Plenty of points made that could have been addressed otherwise.

[TracyTN 237]

If a thread gets out of control, then fine...mods, lock it! But for any OP to have ultimate say on what goes on in the thread....so long as it doesn't violate TOS, I don't understand the control aspect that an OP has on any of his/her threads.

Its quite possible you'll never understand why someone would request it to be closed in that situation. Unless someone who has actually done it will come in and explain it (and even at that, you may still not 'understand' their reasoning).

Just one of those things that makes us all different, I suppose!

[Ban Hammer 12,903]

I've not done it, but its been done to me. For example, on that thread about Iwo Jima being renamed.

which turned into a flamefest.......

When the flames were stoked, and not across the board. Plenty of points made that could have been addressed otherwise.

i got tired real quick of being attacked. so it was locked. live with it.

got an ax to grind by any chance?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You weren't attacked. You were oversensitive.

[Ban Hammer 12,903]

You weren't attacked. You were oversensitive.

it's all perspective. and i say attacked. live with that too

[TracyTN 237]

Oh. Obviously I missed the fact that this was all directed at ONE person. I thought it was a serious question.

Sorry - please carry on.

[almaty 19]

same here...i thought it was a general statement ...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Perspectives often get distorted, especially when people get angry. Not least when a person considers a comment made about a specific remark they made to be an attack on them personally.

As to "living with it" - well... I have. It is an example of what we're talking about. We could talk about generalities all day without once making reference to a single, specific example.

Edited September 6, 2007 by Number 6

[Mags 112]

I personally have no problem with locking a thread if the OP requests it. I can honestly say that there aren't THAT many of them where the OP requests this; maybe a couple a week maximum? I can sometimes get none for a couple of weeks, so I personally don't have an issue with it.

That's me though, others feel differently I guess.

I think that, if people here have a problem with a thread being locked, in the future that they should just PM the OP and ask them directly why.

Oh and that goes for any other ongoing "issues", please take it to PM, don't clutter this thread, or I'll have to use VJ Troll's "STFU" suggestion!

Edited September 6, 2007 by Mags

[*julez* 124]

It won't shock me at all when this thread is locked, but NOT at LisaD's request.

[no name 1]

It won't shock me at all when this thread is locked, but NOT at LisaD's request.

[Sister Fracas 5]

#######....did I miss summat again???

Number 1 best response so far.... especially for the use of the word "neener"

I wonder why some people feel the need to criticise others all the time for being too sensitive. Is it just an ego-boost? "I let everything just roll off my back! Neener!"

Imagine that - some people are more sensitive, others not so much. Wow!

Number 2 best response so far

Its quite possible you'll never understand why someone would request it to be closed in that situation. Unless someone who has actually done it will come in and explain it (and even at that, you may still not 'understand' their reasoning).

Just one of those things that makes us all different, I suppose!

ok...carry on....

[GuapaDoktora 0]

OTHER THAN a thread gone horribly wrong ie wayy tmi for the OP which causes embarrassment, I don't see why the OP of any thread 'gets the power' so to speak to shut down an entire convo. I've said this before, so this is nowt new, but it does irritate me with 'I think I'll lock this soon' and 'please close this thread' when there's NO APPARANT REASON.

Your thoughts?

It's just in your mind! Maybe that's just an early sign of having "AIDS" ( Acquired Irritability Due to Singleness)

[Fandango 1,439]

It was a general statement....I've seen it more than once here where there's nothing directed at anyone, and then the thread is 'closed at the request of the OP'

Had I not started a thread about the very same thing months earlier, maybe you all could easily believe it to be a witch hunt directed at just one person. Then again, people will believe what they want.

It's just in your mind! Maybe that's just an early sign of having "AIDS" ( Acquired Irritability Due to Singleness)

I'm not single, hon

If a thread gets out of control, then fine...mods, lock it! But for any OP to have ultimate say on what goes on in the thread....so long as it doesn't violate TOS, I don't understand the control aspect that an OP has on any of his/her threads.

Its quite possible you'll never understand why someone would request it to be closed in that situation. Unless someone who has actually done it will come in and explain it (and even at that, you may still not 'understand' their reasoning).

Just one of those things that makes us all different, I suppose!

Yeah of course ppl's motivations are their own, but the policy of the OP always having the 'ultimate say' in a thread seems silly to me. Which was really the point of this thread.

[TracyTN 237]

Yeah of course ppl's motivations are their own, but the policy of the OP always having the 'ultimate say' in a thread seems silly to me. Which was really the point of this thread.

Then I suppose only Ewok can speak as to the site's 'policy' on the subject.

The rest of us can really only speculate (or argue about it).