The single most important reason (but not the sole important reason) why members on RPC have never been permitted to delete their own threads is that, often times, a thread takes on a life of its own and comes to hold meaning for folks other than the original poster.
Imagine if you could delete a lore discussion thread you made in which many generous people provided extensive lore tidbits and explanations. That's a community resource that would simply vanish. Or imagine if one pariticipant in an In-Character roleplay thread suddenly decided to delete that thread, and the other participants hadn't the chance to archive posts upon posts of fascinating character development.
Such incidents would constitute abuse cases. The preventative measure of choice here on RPC is simply that users cannot delete their own content short of "blanking" their posts by way of the Edit button. Blanking, at least, does not negatively impact the writings of others. For outliers where deletion is actually justified, reports or PMs to moderators suffice.
Imagine if you could delete a lore discussion thread you made in which many generous people provided extensive lore tidbits and explanations. That's a community resource that would simply vanish. Or imagine if one pariticipant in an In-Character roleplay thread suddenly decided to delete that thread, and the other participants hadn't the chance to archive posts upon posts of fascinating character development.
Such incidents would constitute abuse cases. The preventative measure of choice here on RPC is simply that users cannot delete their own content short of "blanking" their posts by way of the Edit button. Blanking, at least, does not negatively impact the writings of others. For outliers where deletion is actually justified, reports or PMs to moderators suffice.
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