Getting a thread closed

[BilliJo Aldrin]

How do you report a thread that has devolved into a platform for abusing and trolling the OP

[Wulfie Reanimator]

2 hours ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:

One can always hope that people will stay civil, but once again, I was wrong

You: "Look guys, I was intentionally being a butt and directly caused someone to leave because they didn't want to put up with me. I hope they learned their lesson."

Forum: "You were kind of a butt, you know."

You: "I can't believe these people won't blame Linden Lab for this. Linden Lab should close my thread."

Edited June 7, 2023 by Wulfie Reanimator

[LittleMe Jewell]

2 hours ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:

How do you report a thread that has devolved into a platform for abusing and trolling the OP

You had to have known that it was going to go that way.......... I mean, didn't you?

[Love Zhaoying]

[Rolig Loon]

Submit a report and walk away. It's up to the moderators to decide what to do with it. You can't "get a thread closed. " If the mods decide it's not a violation or that your report is out of line, you'll never know why nothing happens. In any case,  you did your part,  so just let it go. 

[Love Zhaoying]

From observation of threads which get closed, it may help if multiple users report the thread. (Unconfirmed, but it may be that a certain minimum "report count" causes Moderators to be alerted to a thread.)

[Rolig Loon]

2 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

From observation of threads which get closed, it may help if multiple users report the thread. (Unconfirmed, but it may be that a certain minimum "report count" causes Moderators to be alerted to a thread.)

I doubt that the number of reports makes much difference. The mods are probably just as likely to ignore five frivolous reports as they are to ignore one. What counts is whether someone broke one of the rules.  And just asking to have your own thread closed won't necessarily work either. The mods seem to lock threads when they've gone off the rails, not when you ask them to. 

Edited June 7, 2023 by Rolig Loon
Typos, of course

[BilliJo Aldrin]

45 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

You had to have known that it was going to go that way.......... I mean, didn't you?

One can always hope that people will stay civil, but once again, I was wrong

[Persephone Emerald]

If you decide to close a thread within 24 hours of posting it, you could change the title to something like "Please DeleteThis Thread", "Please Close and Let This Thread Die", or even "I was a jerk to start this thread and now everyone is being mean to me." That might get the forum moderator's attention so they'll lock it.

Alternatively, you could use an alt to reply to your thread with a post saying "In before the lock". That almost always works. 😆 

[Alwin Alcott]

10 hours ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:

One can always hope that people will stay civil, but once again, I was wrong

we had that hope too .. we were wrong.

[Love Zhaoying]

This thread confuses me, as I would assume the OP knows how to request a thread be closed. 

Perhaps they are used to their threads being closed as a matter of course?

Just a thought..