Greetings,
Having run across a bunch of off-topic and outright rude comments in some threads I've started over my tenor here on TMC, I was thinking about this a bit.
I use a couple of other unrelated forums, and one of the checkboxes available when creating a thread on a couple of them is "Self-moderated thread" (or similar). Basically, when you create the thread, it put's a disclaimer above the first post stating that "This is a self moderated thread. The thread creator may delete posts that they do not want in this thread. If you do not wish to be moderated by XXXXXX in this thread, please start a new topic." or something along those lines that makes it clear that this option was checked when making the thread.
Almost every thread created on those forums has this feature enabled (why wouldn't it be...), and it seems to help out with the basic moderating tasks of removing basic spam, rude, and off-topic posts from threads without causing any issues by giving the thread starter the ability to delete other's posts in that particular thread.
I'm curious as to if this is something TMC would consider adding as a feature.
Having run across a bunch of off-topic and outright rude comments in some threads I've started over my tenor here on TMC, I was thinking about this a bit.
I use a couple of other unrelated forums, and one of the checkboxes available when creating a thread on a couple of them is "Self-moderated thread" (or similar). Basically, when you create the thread, it put's a disclaimer above the first post stating that "This is a self moderated thread. The thread creator may delete posts that they do not want in this thread. If you do not wish to be moderated by XXXXXX in this thread, please start a new topic." or something along those lines that makes it clear that this option was checked when making the thread.
Almost every thread created on those forums has this feature enabled (why wouldn't it be...), and it seems to help out with the basic moderating tasks of removing basic spam, rude, and off-topic posts from threads without causing any issues by giving the thread starter the ability to delete other's posts in that particular thread.
I'm curious as to if this is something TMC would consider adding as a feature.