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Edit. Nevermind. Thought it would be an ok idea, turns out the limited good would be outweighed by inevitable general dickishness.

Been looking around for how to close a page if I'm the original poster.
Does this exist on Dakka? If so, how? If not, why not?

I recently started a thread asking a question, and after almost a thread of unasked for crap, get the answer I was looking for (and thanked that poster). Since I had my answer, and also a preponderance of smack talk levied against me, being able to close the thread would have been great.

Could save on a lot of drama, IMO. And serve to take some of the burden off the mods who have to wade into this dross.

Only immediate disadvantage I see would be OPs using it as a vehicle to get the last insulting word in, but in those scenarios the call mod button could have any offending text changed.

Let's take a second, sit back, and think.

You start a thread asking this question:

Archim3des wrote:If my opponent does not have a scatter die, and asks to borrow mine, would it technically be legal to give him a die with no "Hit" facings?

And you didn't expect a negative response?

Personally, I think you deserved every bit of crap you had thrown at you, if not more. It may serve you better to actually think about what you're going to post in the future.

As to your question, I believe you can. I remember making a thread, and joking PMing a Mod how it had 'grown into a monster'. The Mod asked me if I wished to have the thread closed, to which I responded no, since I wanted to see the thread continue.

So, yes, I do believe you can ask a Mod to close your thread, especially if it's a poor original post and contains poor answers.

And you did have your thread locked, although it appears to have been done not on your call, especially since the Mod himself identified you as a 'troll'.

So no then, barring asking one of the super friendly gentlemen.

Not even ten posts in seems a good point to be labeled a troll for wording something poorly. Especially since the first 8 are all compliments and adding content. Perfectly reasonable.

In before the lock! and yes, you were being a troll for asking such a stupid question.

You do, hit the yellow triangle on the opening post then request it be locked in there. I think it's better the OP doesn't actually have the power to lock their own threads.

<note to all: if you're not posting about the original topic, you're (at least) Off-Topic. If you're being rude AND being Off-Topic, you are jeopardizing your posting privileges.>

Archim3des, the answer is "no." Thread posters do not have the ability to close their own threads. The conversation may start with an individual, but that individual doesn't get to decide when the conversation ends.

If you need a thread locked/closed, PM a mod with your reason and request.

Ratius wrote:If you need a thread locked/closed, PM a mod with your reason and request.

Or just click the 'notify moderator' button on the first post in the thread and request a lock (and explain why in the comments field).

If a moderator agrees with your reasoning about locking the thread then they will. If they don't, then they'll leave it open.

Ultimately the reason for not allowing people to lock their own threads is very simple: If you have that option available, then people will 'snipe' by creating a thread just to say something and then locking it immediately to prevent any negative response back. So then someone else will start ANOTHER thread just to respond to the now locked first thread and so on and so forth.

There is literally nothing positive about having a poster be able to lock their own thread.

If you don't like where one of your threads is going, you can always choose to not read or post into it anymore and if improper actions are occurring in the thread, then notifying a moderator is the course of action you should take.

People don't 'own' a thread because they created it. Once made and people reply, then it is everyone's to share. Other people should not have their discussions shut down because the OP doesn't want the topic spawned by their single post to continue.

I have asked once to have a thread of mine locked.

The question was answered, and the only people keeping it alive were two TFG's bickering for 2 days. So I had it shut down due to a rule 1 violation, and the topic was finished.

I'd rather see a thread locked than see stupid banter continue.

But if meaningful discussion follows, feel free to edit your original
post so you're not involved in what follows.

Still poking around the control panel and reading voraciously through the other posts to find the norm, Malfed. Editing posts seems to be the way to go for most of the problems, either by putting a "nevermind" in the posts title or early in the first post.

Thanks for the responses, mods. New to the site, eager to share my experience and love of the hobby. Thanks for your positive input and thoughts on how I can help out in a tangible way. After being told by a mod that I was a troll and a waste of everyone's time I was just curious if there was a way I wasn't seeing to close my own posts. Pretty salient points for leaving it solely in the domain of the mods. I'll just remove the threads I no longer care about from my subbed list. Unless I see them still floating around the forum they're in, should be an effective ignore on posts that end up in the toilet.

Ironically, I'd be about ready for this thread to be closed now though. Could one of you (legitimately, sorry for earlier sarcasm) friendly gentlemen care to do your magic?